U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has incorporated information into its Policy Manual on the categories of adjustment of status applicants to whom the public charge ground of inadmissibility applies "to make it easier to identify whether the public...
Topic: Immigration Updates
USCIS Updates Visa Availability Approach for Managing EB-5 Immigrant Investor Petition Inventory
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced on July 18, 2023, that it is updating its visa availability approach for managing the inventory of Form I-526, Immigrant Petition by Alien Investor. The new approach involves grouping petitions with filing...
Revised I-9 Form Expected August 1
On August 1, 2023, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) will publish a revised version of Form I-9, Employment Eligibility Verification. Among the updates is a checkbox employers enrolled in E-Verify can use to indicate that they remotely examined...
Miller Mayer’s Steve Yale-Loehr Quoted re DACA Litigation
Miller Mayer immigration attorney Steve Yale-Loehr was quoted by Bloomberg Law in "SCOTUS Ruling and DACA." The article pondered whether a recent Supreme Court decision throwing out a separate immigration lawsuit by Texas for lack of standing might help preserve the...
OFLC Publishes Assignment Groups for H-2B Applications With Work Start Dates of October 1, 2023
The Department of Labor's Office of Foreign Labor Certification (OFLC) has published the Assignment Groups for 2,157 H-2B applications covering 40,947 worker positions with a work start date of October 1, 2023. OFLC said it completed the randomization process on July...
August Visa Bulletin Announces Retrogressions in Several Categories
The Department of State's Visa Bulletin for August includes the following information: Establishment of Worldwide employment-based first preference (EB-1) final action date. An EB-1 final action date will be established for Rest of World countries, Mexico, and...
DHS Adds Eight Qualifying Fields to STEM Designated Degree Program List
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has amended the DHS STEM Designated Degree Program List by adding eight qualifying fields of study and a corresponding Department of Education Classification of Instructional Programs (CIP) code for each. No CIP codes from the...
Miller Mayer’s Steve Yale-Loehr Interviewed re Recent Immigration Cases
Miller Mayer immigration attorney Steve Yale-Loehr was interviewed on the podcast "This Week in Immigration" about recent immigration cases. He discussed the Supreme Court's latest decision to uphold the Biden administration's deportation priorities in U.S. v. Texas...
DHS Updates ESTA Guidance re Cuba-Related VWP Travel Restrictions
The Department of Homeland Security's (DHS) Carrier Liaison Program has updated the Electronic System for Travel Authorization (ESTA) application and mobile app to incorporate changes related to the designation of Cuba as a State Sponsor of Terrorism on January 12,...
DHS Announces New Parole Processes for Colombians, Salvadorans, Guatemalans, and Hondurans
On July 7, 2023, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced the implementation of new family reunification parole processes for eligible nationals of Colombia, El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras. DHS said the new processes are for "nationals from those...
