Alejandro Mayorkas, Secretary of Homeland Security, announced on October 29, 2021, the termination of the Migrant Protection Protocols (MPP), a controversial program started by the Trump administration in early 2019 under which undocumented migrants seeking admission...
Topic: Immigration Updates
USCIS Expands Guidance on Supporting Evidence for Liberian Refugee Immigration Fairness Applications; Deadline is Dec. 20
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has expanded its guidance on Liberian Refugee Immigration Fairness (LRIF) applications, clarifying steps applicants must take if they cannot submit primary evidence of Liberian nationality to support an LRIF-based...
USCIS Releases E-Verify Updates on Referred TNCs and Open Cases
In March 2020, E-Verify extended the timeframe employees had to contest tentative nonconfirmations (TNCs) of their Social Security numbers. U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) said this extension was due in part to the Social Security Administration...
Settlement Agreement Outlines ‘New, Overarching’ Guidance for H-1B Petitions for Market Research Analysts
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) reached a settlement agreement in the case of MadKudu Inc. v. USCIS that the agency said "outlines new, overarching guidance" for adjudicating pending or future H-1B petitions for market research analysts. USCIS had...
President Biden Replaces Country-by-Country Pandemic-Related Air Travel Restrictions With Vaccine Requirement
Effective November 8, 2021, a new Presidential Proclamation that governs the entry into the United States by air of "noncitizen nonimmigrants" revokes previous country-by-country restrictions applied during the COVID-19 pandemic and replaces them with a vaccination...
“A Review of Recent AAO EB-1A Extraordinary Ability Decisions” and “AAO Cases After Kazarian”
The following articles are printed in the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA) book, Immigration Options for Academics and Researchers (3d ed.). A Review of Recent AAO EB-1A Extraordinary Ability Decisions by Hun Lee and Stephen Yale-Loehr [pdf-embedder...
Miller Mayer’s Nicolai Hinrichsen to Moderate at IIUSA Forum
Miller Mayer Immigration partner Nicolai Hinrichsen will moderate a panel at the IIUSA Virtual EB-5 Industry Forum. The panel, “Investor Market Trends and Understanding the EB-5 Process,” will take place on November 9 at 8:30-10:00 AM EST. Registration and more...
Miller Mayer’s Steve Yale-Loehr Quoted re Afghanistan Efforts at Cornell
Miller Mayer Immigration attorney Steve Yale-Loehr was quoted by the Cornell Daily Sun in "'I'm Living History': A Student's Journey Out of Kabul as It Fell." The article describes the difficulties a Cornell student had in returning to campus from Afghanistan. The end...
USCIS Accepts Credit Card Payments From Petitioners for O and P Nonimmigrant Workers
As part of its credit card payment pilot program, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services' (USCIS) Vermont Service Center is now accepting credit card payments using Form G-1450, Authorization for Credit Card Transactions, from petitioners filing Form I-129,...
USCIS Implements Work Authorization for Individuals Covered by Deferred Enforced Departure for Hong Kong Residents
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) released information on how to apply for employment authorization for eligible Hong Kong residents covered under President Biden's August 5, 2021, memorandum allowing Deferred Enforced Departure (DED) for 18 months,...
