U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) is releasing revised editions of Form I-589, Application for Asylum and for Withholding of Removal, and Form I-765, Application for Employment Authorization. Effective November 7, 2022, USCIS will only accept editions...
Topic: Immigration Updates
DHS Issues Final Rule on Public Charge Ground of Inadmissibility
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is amending its regulations, effective December 23, 2022, regarding determinations of whether noncitizens are inadmissible to the United States because they are likely at any time to become a public charge. Secretary of...
Visa Bulletin for October Includes Several Retrogressions, Other Updates
The Department of State's (DOS) Visa Bulletin for October 2022, the first month of the new fiscal year, includes several updates: Scheduled expiration of employment fourth preference (SR) Religious Workers category. Unless Congress extends this category, no SR visas...
Miller Mayer’s Steve Yale-Loehr Writes Op-ed and Interviewed re U.S. Immigration System
Miller Mayer immigration attorney Steve Yale-Loehr co-authored an op-ed, published by Slate, called "Joe Biden's New DACA Rule Does Not Go Nearly Far Enough." Read the article here. Steve was also interviewed on WRFI public radio about ways to fix the United States'...
OFLC Receives Labor Dept. Award to Modernize Permanent Labor Certification Program
The Department of Labor's (DOL) Office of Foreign Labor Certification (OFLC) announced that it was awarded an investment from the DOL's Technology Modernization Fund (TMF). The $7.2 million TMF investment "will improve DOL's permanent labor certification services,...
USCIS Resumes Cuban Parole Program Operations
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) is resuming operations under the Cuban Family Reunification Parole (CFRP) program, beginning with pending CFRP program applications. The CFRP program, established in 2007, allows certain eligible U.S. citizens and...
USCIS Updates Guidance on Religious Workers
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has issued policy guidance to reorganize and expand on existing guidance related to special immigrant and nonimmigrant religious workers. For both special immigrant and R-1 nonimmigrant religious worker petitions, the...
DHS Implements, Expands Work Authorization for Liberian DED
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) plans to provide employment authorization for certain individuals covered by Liberian Deferred Enforced Departure (DED). Through a notice to be published in the Federal Register on September 6, 2022, DHS is providing work...
USCIS Announces Push to Use as Many Employment-Based Green Cards as Possible by September 30
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced that the overall employment-based annual limit for immigrant visas in fiscal year (FY) 2022 is approximately twice as high as usual, primarily due to consular closures abroad during the COVID-19 pandemic....
Labor Dept. Reports FLAG System Issues
The Department of Labor announced on August 24, 2022, that the Foreign Labor Application Gateway (FLAG) system "continues to experience intermittent issues when creating certain application forms, appendices, or other decision documents through Adobe PDF." DOL...
