U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has issued guidance that interprets certain confidentiality protections as ending at naturalization. USCIS said it made this change because "the previous practice of maintaining 8 U.S.C. 1367 protections beyond...
Topic: Immigration Updates
Class Certified for Visa Applicants Refused Visas Under Presidential Proclamation
The Department of State (DOS) disseminated a notice that the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California has certified a class in the consolidated cases Emami v. Mayorkas and Pars Equality Center v. Blinken to allow certain visa applicants who were...
OFLC Seeks Info on Availability of Qualified Workers and Ways to Contact Them
The Department of Labor's Office of Foreign Labor Certification (OFLC) seeks input by August 13, 2024, on the annual determination of Labor Supply States (LSS) to enhance U.S. worker recruitment. OFLC explained that LSS are "additional states in which an employer's...
EB-3 Category Retrogresses for July, Other Updates: Visa Bulletin
The Department of State's Visa Bulletin for July includes the following information about retrogression in the EB-3 immigrant visa preference category and an alert about a new law's impact on special immigrant visas: RETROGRESSION IN THE EMPLOYMENT-BASED THIRD (EB-3)...
Miller Mayer’s Steve Yale-Loehr Quoted re Biden’s Border Order, Need for Immigration Counsel
Miller Mayer immigration attorney Steve Yale-Loehr was quoted by the Associated Press in The ACLU is Making Plans to Fight Trump's Promises of Immigrant Raids and Mass Deportations. He said, "The second Trump administration, if there is one, will be better prepared"...
BALCA, OALJ Offices Move
The national, Washington, DC, and Cherry Hill offices of the Board of Alien Labor Certification Appeals (BALCA) and the Office of Administrative Law Judges (OALJ) have relocated to the Frances Perkins building in DC. Effective immediately, all mail to these offices...
DOJ Sues Oklahoma Over New State Enforcement Law Against Unauthorized Noncitizens
The Department of Justice (DOJ) has sued the state of Oklahoma over House Bill (HB) 4156, a new law that DOJ says "impermissibly creates a state-specific immigration system that effectively seeks to regulate noncitizens' entry, reentry, and presence in the United...
President Suspends and Limits Entry Into the United States of Certain Noncitizens, With Exceptions
Subject to certain exceptions, as of June 5, 2024, President Biden has "suspended and limited" entry into the United States of certain noncitizens across the southern border. In related remarks accompanying a Presidential Proclamation, President Biden said, "Migrants...
Miller Mayer’s Steve Yale-Loehr Starts DACA Project at Cornell
Miller Mayer immigration attorney Steve Yale-Loehr and another professor at Cornell Law School have secured a $1.5 million grant to fund Path2Papers, an innovative nonprofit that provides legal assistance to Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) recipients and...
Miller Mayer’s Steve Yale-Loehr Starts DACA Project at Cornell
Miller Mayer immigration attorney Steve Yale-Loehr and another professor at Cornell Law School have secured a $1.5 million grant to fund Path2Papers, an innovative nonprofit that provides legal assistance to Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) recipients and...
