U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has resumed premium processing for all H-1B petitions as of March 12, 2019. All H-1B petitions may be upgraded to premium processing or filed originally with a request for premium processing. In recent years, USCIS has...
Topic: Immigration Updates
National Statistics: H-1B Requests for Evidence on the Rise as Approval Rates Drop
Recent U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) statistics confirm what many employers and attorneys have believed: It is harder to get an H-1B petition approved these days, and USCIS is issuing more requests for evidence (RFEs) in H-1B cases. In fiscal year...
Miller Mayer’s Steve Yale-Loehr Quoted Regarding U.S. Citizenship, EB-5
Miller Mayer immigration attorney Steve Yale-Loehr was quoted by CNN in "Trump Says Alabama Woman Who Joined ISIS Should Not Return to U.S." Mr. Yale-Loehr said Hoda Muthana's situation was "not clear-cut. It would depend on the facts, if the State Department argues...
Chambers Global Names Miller Mayer Great Immigration Law Firm
Miller Mayer was named an outstanding U.S. immigration law firm in the latest annual issue of Chambers Global. According to Chambers Global, Miller Mayer is a “prominent business immigration practice renowned for its proficiency in the EB-5 arena. [It] continues to...
Miller Mayer’s Immigration Upcoming Talks
November 22 – Kristal Ozmun presents Visa after Graduation at University of Buffalo
U.S. Moscow Field Office to Close Because of Decreased Workload
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced it will close its field office in Moscow, Russia, on March 29, 2019, due to "a significant decrease in workload." The last day the office was open to the public and accepting applications was February 28,...
USCIS: Congressionally Mandated H-2B Cap Reached for 2019 Fiscal Year
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced that it has received enough petitions to meet the congressionally mandated H-2B cap for the second half of fiscal year (FY) 2019. February 19, 2019, was the final receipt date for new cap-subject H-2B...
China and India EB-2s and All EB-1 Areas Show Modest Progress in March
The Department of State (DOS) has released the Visa Bulletin for March 2019, showing modest progress for EB-1 for all chargeability areas as well as EB-2 for China and India; EB-3 and Other Workers China, India, and the Philippines; and EB-5 China and Vietnam, with...
Congress Expresses “Grave Concerns” About Significantly Longer Processing Delays
The Department of Homeland Security reported a net backlog in fiscal year (FY) 2017 of more than 2.3 million USCIS cases, more than double the backlog reported at the end of FY 2016. On February 12, 2019, eighty-six Democratic members of the House of Representatives...
Revised Form I-539 and New I-539A Versions Available March 8
Form I-539 is used for certain nonimmigrant applications for an extension of stay, certain nonimmigrant applications for a change of status, and reinstatement for F-1 and M-1 students. U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has announced that the revised...
