U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) seeks comments on a proposed revision of the nonimmigrant petition based on a blanket L intracompany transferee petition. USCIS explained that employers seeking to classify employees outside the United States as...
Topic: Immigration Updates
DHS Extends Comment Period for Fee Rule; USCIS Releases Fact Sheet on Fee Waivers for Naturalization Applications
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has extended by five days, to March 13, 2023, the comment period for a rule published on January 4, 2023, proposing to change the fee schedule for certain immigration benefits. DHS said the extension was due to technical...
F and M Student Visas Can Be Issued Up To a Year in Advance, State Dept. Says
The Department of State (DOS) announced that F and M student visas for new students now can be issued up to 365 days before the start date for a course of study. However, the student cannot enter the United States on a student visa more than 30 days before the start...
USCIS Issues Clarifying Guidance for Individuals Authorized to Work Under Special Student Relief Provisions
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has released policy guidance to clarify the validity period of employment authorization for F-1 nonimmigrant students experiencing severe economic hardship due to emergent circumstances (also known as special student...
Biden Administration Proposes Controversial Rule on ‘Temporary’ Measures to Limit Asylum at Southwest Border
The Biden administration issued a new proposed rule that it called "temporary," which would introduce a "rebuttable presumption of asylum ineligibility for certain noncitizens who neither avail themselves of a lawful, safe, and orderly pathway to the United States nor...
Chief Administrative Hearing Officer Requests Amicus Briefs on Immigration-Related Document Fraud
The Department of Justice's Chief Administrative Hearing Officer (CAHO) for immigration-related cases has invited interested members of the public to file amicus curiae briefs on this question: Does a violation of 8 U.S.C. § 1324c(a)(2) for the knowing use of a...
United States, Mexico Sign MOU on Temporary Foreign Workers
The United States and Mexico have signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) "to strengthen protections for workers participating in temporary foreign worker programs," the Department of Labor reported. The MOU includes a variety of measures, including promoting fair...
Fourth Circuit Affirms Denial of Employer’s Petition for Multinational Executive/Manager
Elizur International Inc., a company that produces ornamental glass products, filed an employment-based green card petition in 2018 seeking to permanently employ Chuncheng Ren, a Chinese citizen, in the United States as a multinational executive or manager. U.S....
Ninth Circuit Agrees to Rehear Temporary Protected Status Case
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has agreed to rehear a case, Ramos v. Mayorkas, filed by temporary protected status (TPS) recipients and their children, thus granting at least a temporary reprieve to an estimated 300,000 affected TPS recipients. A...
E-Verify Recommends Timeframes to Resolve Certain Social Security Mismatches; Deadline is September 29, 2023
E-Verify notified employers on February 15, 2023, that it recommends that employees with E-Verify Social Security Administration (SSA) Tentative Nonconfirmation mismatch cases falling within certain timeframes to visit their local SSA offices within preferred date...
