Keeping you informed on the latest immigration news.
DHS To Terminate TPS Designation for Haiti in July 2019
Acting Secretary of Homeland Security Elaine Duke recently announced the termination of the temporary protected status (TPS) designation for Haiti with a delayed effective date of 18 months "to allow for an orderly transition before the designation terminates on July...
USCIS Designates Adopted Decisions Defining Affected Parties, Function Managers
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has designated two Administrative Appeals Office (AAO) decisions as Adopted Decisions. Matter of V-S-G Inc. (AAO Nov. 11, 2017), Adopted Decision 2017-06. This decision clarifies that beneficiaries of valid...
Federal Court Vacates Delay of International Entrepreneur Rule
On December 1, 2017, federal district Judge James E. Boasberg vacated the Trump administration's delay of an Obama-era rule that would have allowed certain foreign entrepreneurs to obtain immigration parole (to temporarily enter the United States despite lacking a...
Miller Mayer at the IIUSA EB-5 Industry Forum
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New Publications and Items of Interest for Mid-November
E-Verify free webinar listings can be found on the USCIS website. The Immigrant and Employee Rights (IER) Section of the Department of Justice's Civil Rights Division has released a video on recent changes to the IER's regulations and what these changes mean for the...
Miller Mayer Success Story: O-1 Extraordinary Ability Visa Approval
Miller Mayer immigration attorneys Rosanne Mayer and David Wilks were tasked with filing a petition for an O-1 nonimmigrant visa, under slightly unusual circumstances, for a person with extraordinary ability. In this instance, the O-1 beneficiary owned the petitioning...
Miller Mayer’s Steve Yale-Loehr Quoted Regarding Diversity Visa Lottery, Immigration Enforcement, Temporary Protected Status
Miller Mayer immigration attorney Steve Yale-Loehr was quoted recently in the following publications: On the Diversity Visa lottery program: New York Times: Diversity Visa Lottery: Inside the Program That Admitted a Terror Suspect ("A lottery is a crazy way to run an...
E-Verify Employers Can Request Authorization to Post Logo
E-Verify employers can now request authorization from U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services to post the trademarked E-Verify logo on their websites, presentation materials, and brochures "to let everyone know they are committed to maintaining a legal workforce."...
USCIS Warns About Scams Requesting I-9 Forms Via Email
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) recently announced that employers have received scam emails requesting Form I-9, Employment Eligibility Verification, information. The emails claim to come from USCIS but do not. Employers are not required to submit...
U.S. Resumes Limited Visa Operations in Turkey
The U.S. Mission in Turkey announced on November 6, 2017, that embassies and consulates have resumed "limited visa services" in Turkey. The U.S. Mission noted that "[w]e continue to have serious concerns about the existing cases against arrested local employees of our...
