U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has made updates to its fee payment system used in field offices to "increase transaction security and reduce processing errors." Effective immediately, a long list of field offices will only accept payments in the...
Topic: Immigration Updates
How to Correct Typographic Errors on USCIS Documents
USCIS has provided a self-service tool to submit corrections. The submitter will need a valid email address, receipt number, A-number (if applicable), item that contains the error, and date filed. Those who electronically filed their cases and have a myUSCIS account...
Texas Service Center Has Moved
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services' Texas Service Center has moved as of June 26, 2020. The new address is: Texas Service Center 6046 N. Belt Line Rd. Irving, TX 75038-0001 USCIS said those submitting forms should refer to the form filing address pages at...
USCIS Final Rule Imposes New Restrictions on Asylum-Based Work Authorization
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) published a final rule on June 26, 2020, "to deter aliens from illegally entering the United States and from filing frivolous, fraudulent, or otherwise non-meritorious claims for asylum to obtain an employment...
USCIS Eliminates 30-Day Timeframe for Processing Asylee Initial EADs
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) plans to eliminate the 30-day timeframe for processing asylum applicants' employment authorization documents (EADs), effective August 21, 2020. USCIS said the 30-day timeframe was imposed by regulation more than 20...
Supreme Court Rules DHS Violated APA, DACA Stands (At Least for Now)
On June 18, 2020, the Supreme Court ruled that Elaine C. Duke, then-Acting Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), violated the Administrative Procedure Act (APA) in 2017 when she rescinded the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, in...
USCIS Issues New H-1B Policy Memo and Rescinds Two Earlier Memos Following Litigation
Following up on an agreement resulting from recent litigation, U.S. Citizenship & Immigration Services (USCIS) has issued a new memorandum and rescinded two policy memoranda regarding the adjudication of certain petitions for H-1B nonimmigrant classification:...
Miller Mayer’s Steve Yale-Loehr Quoted re New Proposed Asylum Restrictions
Miller Mayer immigration attorney Steve Yale-Loehr was quoted in several articles about new proposed asylum regulations. He said the new proposed rule was as if Trump administration officials had taken every precedential immigration appellate decision, executive...
State Dept. Opens DV-2021 Entrant Status Check
As of June 6, 2020, the Department of State's (DOS) Entrant Status Check for diversity visa (DV) 2021 applicants is open, postponed from May 5. DOS said the delayed opening "will not negatively impact our ability to pre-process and schedule DV-2021 interviews, which...
New Joint Proposed Rule Would ‘Streamline’ Asylum Adjudications
A new joint proposed rule would alter asylum adjudications by having the claims for asylum, withholding of removal, or protection under the Convention Against Torture (CAT) of those found to have a credible fear adjudicated by an immigration judge in "streamlined...
