Miller Mayer immigration attorney Steve Yale-Loehr was quoted in several U.S. and international news outlets on September 5, 2017, about the Trump administration’s termination of the DACA program. The articles include: Bloomberg: Challenging Trump's 'Dreamers'...
Topic: Immigration Updates
New Publications and Items of Interest for September
A national database of occupational licensing, launched by the Center for the Study of Occupational Regulation, St. Francis University, documents and tracks the occupational licensing regulations for many professions. The database, which is free and open to the...
USCIS Alerts Hurricane Harvey Survivors to Available Immigration Services
USCIS recently issued an alert listing immigration services "that may help people affected by unforeseen circumstances, including disasters such as Hurricane Harvey." USCIS said that those making a request should "explain how the impact of Hurricane Harvey created a...
ICE Seeks Private Help in Gathering Data on 500,000 Undocumented Immigrants per Month
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)'s Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) Targeting Operations Division (TOD) is seeking commercial subscription data services to conduct customized analysis, screening, and monitoring of Department of Homeland Security...
USCIS to Expand In-Person Interview Requirements for Certain Permanent Residence Applicants
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced that effective October 1, 2017, it will begin expanding in-person interviews for certain green card applicants. USCIS said this change complies with Executive Order 13780, "Protecting the Nation from Foreign...
U.S. Nonimmigrant Visa Operations Suspended/Reduced in Russia
As a result of the Russian government's personnel cap imposed on the U.S. Mission, the U.S. embassy in Russia has announced that all nonimmigrant visa (NIV) operations across Russia were suspended as of August 23, 2017, and will resume on a "greatly reduced scale."...
USCIS Denies Pending Advance Parole Applications for H-1B, L Applicants Traveling Outside the United States
According to reports, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has been denying pending advance parole applications for abandonment when applicants travel outside the United States in H-1B or L status. The reason the agency gives is that the instructions to...
Impact of The Trump Administration’s Decision to Terminate DACA
On September 5, 2017, Elaine Duke, Acting Secretary of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (“DHS”), issued a memorandum rescinding the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (“DACA”) program. The DACA program, instituted in 2012 under the Obama administration,...
Expansion of In-Person Interview Requirements for Certain Permanent Residency Applicants
On August 28, 2017, USCIS made an announcement stating that they will begin to “phase-in” interviews for employment-based cases effective on October 1, 2017. The announcement stated that “adjustment of status applications based on employment”—i.e., categories EB-1...
Importance of Maintaining Lawful Non-Immigrant Status in the United States
In order to be eligible to file an adjustment of status application pursuant to an approved I-526 petition, there must be immigrant visas available (i.e. the applicant’s priority date must be earlier than the date in Chart A of the Visa Bulletin) and the foreign...
