USCIS Hopes to Avoid Total Premium Processing Suspension
As previously announced, USCIS will be offering premium processing in a two-phased approach during the Fiscal Year 2020 cap season. The hope is that by offering premium processing in [...]
As previously announced, USCIS will be offering premium processing in a two-phased approach during the Fiscal Year 2020 cap season. The hope is that by offering premium processing in [...]
Premium processing will be offered in two phases during this year’s H-1B cap season. The first phase will accept premium processing requests only for cap-subject H-1B petitions that request [...]
We have written previously about the measures the Trump administration has taken to build its “invisible wall” to deter legal immigration. One such action has been to significantly delay [...]
Good news! USCIS resumed its premium processing service on Monday, January 28, for all H-1B petitions filed on April 1, 2018. Applicants with pending H-1B cap petitions can now [...]
We have now entered into the longest government shutdown in U.S. history with no end in sight. We have written previously about the shutdown’s impact on immigration. As previously [...]
The government shutdown began in late December when President Trump refused to sign a bill to keep the government running because the bill did not include $5 Billion for [...]
USCIS recently issued an updated policy memo giving adjudicating officers more discretion to deny an application. This guidance took effect on September 11, 2018 and applies to all applications received [...]
Premium processing is an optional service offered by USCIS that is currently available for certain temporary work status and permanent residence applications. By paying the government a premium processing [...]
As many of our clients already know, USCIS has been experiencing significant backlogs in adjudicating many types of applications. However, the I-751 Removal of Conditions petitions are among the [...]
USCIS announced that it has completed its selection of H-1B lottery winners for fiscal year 2019 H-1B cap-subject petitions. This H-1B season, we have had another successful year with [...]