Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL) and Senator Patrick Leahy (D-VT) introduced a bill recently to eliminate current green card backlogs by increasing the number of green cards. S. 2603, entitled the Resolving Extended Limbo for Immigrant Employees and Families (RELIEF) Act,...
Topic: Immigration Updates
USCIS Removes Means-Tested Benefit Criteria From Form I-912 Fee Waiver Form
United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) revised Form I-912, Request for Fee Waiver, removing the means-tested benefit criteria. The criteria was previously used as a factor in determining an applicant’s qualification for exemption from paying for...
Trump Wants Cuccinelli as DHS Secretary, Hesitant Due to Senate’s Reluctance
Donald Trump has expressed support for Ken Cuccinelli, current acting director of United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), to take over as secretary of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). The legitimacy of Cuccinelli’s appointment as acting...
Courts Halt DHS Public Charge Rule
Last week, five courts issued injunctions barring the Trump Administration from implementing the controversial public charge rule that would dramatically change the way immigration law operates in the United States. Three of the courts issued nationwide injunctions....
Miller Mayer’s Stephen Yale-Loehr Quoted on Student Visas, Public Charge Injunctions, and Supreme Court
The Guardian: Iranian Students Barred From US: Lost Money, Broken Dreams, No Answers They had been accepted to prestigious postgraduate programs, many in California, but they got no further than the airport… … Aghajohari was one of about 20 students from Iran who were...
Immigrants Lead the Way for America in Nobel Prizes
Four immigrants to the United States have been named Nobel laureates for 2019. They include French-born Esther Duflo and Indian-born Abhijit Banerjee in the field of economics. British immigrant M. Stanley Whittingham won for chemistry, and Canadian-born James Peebles...
DHS Secretary Resigns
After just six months serving as Acting Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Kevin McAleenan resigned last Friday night. McAleenan was the fourth DHS Secretary of the Trump Administration. He focused his time at the agency cracking down on asylum...
2021 Diversity Immigrant Visa Program (DV-2021)
The Department of State annually administers the statutorily-mandated Diversity Immigrant Visa Program. Section 203(c) of the Immigration and Nationality Act provides for a class of immigrants known as “diversity immigrants” from countries with historically low rates...
EB-5 Regional Center Program Extended to Nov. 21
The EB-5 Regional Center Program, which was due to sunset (expire) on September 30, 2019, is now extended through November 21, 2019. On September 28, a Continuing Resolution was passed by Congress and signed by the President to not only extend the funding of the...
Miller Mayer’s Stephen Yale-Loehr Quoted in Various News Outlets
New York Times: Trump Will Deny Immigrant Visas to Those Who Can’t Pay for Health Care The Trump administration will deny visas to immigrants who cannot prove they will have health insurance or the ability to pay for medical costs once they become permanent residents...
