U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services announced on November 18, 2020, that it received enough petitions to reach the congressionally mandated cap on H-2B visas for temporary nonagricultural workers for the first half of fiscal year 2021. November 16, 2020, was the...
Topic: Immigration Updates
A Review of Recent AAO EB-1A Extraordinary Ability Decisions
By Hun Lee and Stephen Yale-Loehr* “As a married, self-employed serial entrepreneur from the Dominican Republic, the well-trodden paths of gaining a green card to work in the US, like marrying an American, investing more than $500K to $1M, or finding a...
Big-Picture, Clean-Slate Immigration Reforms for the Biden-Harris Administration
by Angelo A. Paparelli and Stephen Yale-Loehr As a new administration takes office on January 20, and the tantalizing prospect of enlightened immigration reforms looms on the horizon, an intriguing question has surfaced on Twitter: “Is there a progressive version of...
Miller Mayer’s Steve Yale-Loehr Quoted re Possible Immigration Changes in New Administration
Miller Mayer immigration attorney Steve Yale-Loehr was quoted in various media outlets about possible immigration changes under the Biden-Harris administration: Los Angeles Times, "On Latin America, Biden's Brand of Diplomacy Will Be a Major Shift From Trump." Steve...
USCIS Revises Civics Portion of Naturalization Test
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced plans to implement a revised version of the civics portion of the naturalization test, following a pilot of the test with community-based organizations and volunteers conducted over the summer. Applicants who...
Several Employment-Based Visa Categories Extended Until December 11
The Department of State's Visa Bulletin for November 2020 notes that the Continuing Appropriations Act, 2021 and Other Extensions Act (P.L. 116–159) extended the employment fourth preference Certain Religious Workers (SR) and employment fifth preference Pilot (I5 and...
American Immigration Lawyers Association Issues Recommendations for Biden Administration
The American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA) issued immigration-related recommendations on immigration for President-elect Joe Biden. The 20-page report, "A Vision for America as a Welcoming Nation: AILA Recommendations for the Future of Immigration," notes...
Litigation Challenges Trump Proclamation Banning Many Immigrants
In Anunciato v. Trump, more than 245 family, employment, and diversity-based immigrant visa applicants and their U.S. sponsors sued President Donald Trump, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, and the Department of State in federal court in San Francisco, California on...
Federal Judge Rules New Policy Limiting DACA Is Invalid Because ‘Acting Secretary’ Wolf Was Appointed Unlawfully
On November 14, 2020, a federal judge ruled that a new policy limiting Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) applications and renewals is invalid because Chad Wolf was not legally serving as Acting Secretary of Homeland Security when he signed it on July 28,...
Miller Mayer Receives Many I-526 Approvals
Miller Mayer is pleased to have received numerous I-526 approvals over the last few months for a diverse array of EB-5 clients, including investors from Australia, China, Canada, Vietnam, and Thailand. Our decades of EB-5 experience benefits our many clients from...
