U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has extended the comment period until September 9, 2019, for a new USCIS Tip Form to facilitate the collection of information from the public regarding "credible and relevant claims of immigration benefit fraud...
Topic: Immigration Updates
State Dept. Releases DV-2020 Results
The Department of State's (DOS) Kentucky Consular Center in Williamsburg, Kentucky, has registered and notified the winners of the DV-2020 diversity lottery. Approximately 83,884 applicants have been registered and notified and may now make an application for an...
USCIS Plans to Close 13 International Field Offices and Three District Offices
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has announced plans to close 13 international field offices and three district offices between now and August 2020. The first planned closures are the field offices in Monterrey, Mexico, and Seoul, South Korea, at the...
ICE Conducts Workplace Raids in Mississippi
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) conducted mass raids on workplaces in the first week of school in Mississippi. According to reports, the operation was conducted without much advance notice, even to the White House. Six hundred agents took part in raids...
Court Grants Summary Judgment for Plaintiffs in LexisNexis H-1B Denial Case
The U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia recently granted summary judgment for plaintiffs and denied defendants' motion to dismiss in an H-1B case, RELX, Inc. v. Baran. The plaintiffs, RELX, Inc., d/b/a LexisNexis USA, and a data analyst for Lexis Nexis in...
USCIS Is Rejecting Nonimmigrant Worker Petitions That Lack Required Name and Address
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) recently issued a reminder that as of August 5, 2019, it is rejecting Form I-129 nonimmigrant worker petitions that do not include the petitioner's or applicant's name and primary U.S. office address in Part 1 of the...
State Dept. Establishes, Retrogresses August Employment-Based Final Action Dates
The Department of State's Visa Bulletin for August 2019 notes a steadily increasing level of employment-based applicant demand since late May for adjustment-of-status cases filed with U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, with no indication that this increase...
USCIS Issues New Public Charge Regulations
On Wednesday, August 14, 2019, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services released new regulations reinterpreting how the agency will determine whether a foreign national is eligible for admission under the “public charge” ground of inadmissibility found under section...
Miller Mayer’s Steve Yale-Loehr Quoted on Sanctuary Churches
Miller Mayer immigration attorney Steve Yale-Loehr was quoted by Axios in Lutheran Denomination Claims it is the First 'Sanctuary Church Body' Mr. Yale-Loehr noted that although U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers frequently stay out of a church if...
USCIS Updates Filing Addresses for Some I-129 Petitions
Though no normal announcement was made, USCIS has updated the direct filing addresses for Form I-129, Petition for a Nonimmigrant Worker. Specifically, changes were made on the USCIS webpage for the filing addresses for H-1B cap-exempt petitions for extension of stay,...
