Keeping you informed on the latest immigration news.
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...
New Resources for Navigating Immigration Policy in a Time of Uncertainty
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...
Miller Mayer Immigration Attorneys Named Best Lawyers in America
Miller Mayer immigration attorneys Hilary T. Fraser, Nicolai Hinrichsen, Carolyn S. Lee, Rosanne Mayer and Stephen Yale-Loehr were recognized in the 2018 Edition of The Best Lawyers in America. Published annually by Best Lawyers, the recognitions are based on peer...
Miller Mayer’s Steve Yale-Loehr Quoted re Bill to Slash Immigration in Half
Miller Mayer immigration attorney Steve Yale-Loehr was quoted in an August 2, 2017, article in the Financial Times about the RAISE Act, a new bill that would slash immigration in half. "It's going to be very hard to get through Congress. Immigration is just as...
