The Department of State's Visa Bulletin for November 2022 includes the following information: EMPLOYMENT FOURTH PREFERENCE (SR) RELIGIOUS WORKERS CATEGORY EXTENDED H.R. 6833, enacted on September 30, 2022, extended the Employment Fourth Preference Certain Religious...
Topic: Immigration Updates
EOIR Extends Automatic Acceptance of Documents Filed Late With Certain Florida Immigration Courts Due to Hurricane Ian
Following President Biden's amended disaster declaration due to the impact of Hurricane Ian, the Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) said in a stakeholder update that it will extend the automatic acceptance of documents filed late with the Miami, Krome, and...
Labor Dept. Announces H-2A Final Rule
The Department of Labor announced the impending publication of a final rule to amend H-2A temporary labor certification regulations to strengthen agricultural worker protections and to update the H-2A application and temporary labor certification as well as prevailing...
Court Upholds Optional Practical Training, STEM Extension
On October 4, 2022, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia affirmed the judgment of the district court sustaining the Department of Homeland Security's (DHS) current Optional Practical Training (OPT) rule's authorization of a limited period of...
Fifth Circuit Rules DACA is Illegal, But Remands to Lower Court to Consider Final Rule
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit ruled on October 5, 2022, that the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program is unlawful but remanded the case to the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas, ruling that the current 594,000...
Miller Mayer’s Steve Yale-Loehr Expands Immigration Program at Cornell Law School
Miller Mayer immigration attorney Steve Yale-Loehr, who is also faculty director of the immigration law and policy research program at Cornell Law School, announced that the Law School has hired two postdoctoral research associates, Janine Prantl and Jacob Hamburger,...
Miller Mayer’s Steve Yale-Loehr Interviewed in Immigration Podcast
Miller Mayer immigration attorney Steve Yale-Loehr was featured by the "Rational Middle" podcast series in "Stephen Yale-Loehr and the Stories of Immigrants." He discussed his work in immigration law, his Green Card Stories book, and research on refugees in the United...
E-Verify Restores Client Company Enrollments
E-Verify announced on September 26, 2022, that it has resolved technical issues with client enrollments. According to E-Verify, employer agents can once again create and submit enrollments, and they will not experience any change in the process to enroll a new client....
Problems Reported With Emergency ‘Satisfactory Departure’ Requests
According to reports, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has told some practitioners that the ability to grant multiple "satisfactory departure" requests ended in April but acknowledged that the agency's public website has not yet been updated. The...
USCIS Director, CIS Ombudsman Hold ‘Fireside Chat’
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) Director Ur Jaddou and Citizenship and Immigration Services (CIS) Ombudsman Phyllis Coven held a "fireside chat" on September 21, 2022. They discussed challenges and accomplishments from fiscal year (FY) 2022 and...
