DACA Program Could Resume by End of August After almost a year since the current presidential administration began its attack on the DACA program, the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia has provided some good news. A ruling was made on August 3, 2018,...

New NTA Guidance Means More Foreign Nationals will be Placed in Deportation Proceedings On July 5, the day after we celebrated our country’s birthday, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) issued new guidance that will place many denied applicants in...

US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Stopping People on Highways in New England to Check Citizenship CNN reported on June 24, 2018 that Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agents have been using checkpoints on highways to ask motorists about their place of birth and...

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced starting today, April 30, 2018, that the agency will begin phasing in use of the U.S. Postal Service’s (USPS) Signature Confirmation Restricted Delivery service to mail Green Cards and other secure documents....

Major Changes to Accrual of Unlawful Presence Policy for Students Beginning August 9, 2018, a new USCIS policy will change the way foreign students and exchange visitors accrue unlawful presence, which is how the U.S. defines time an individual spends in the country...

USCIS Reaches FY 2019 H-1B Cap USCIS has reached the congressionally-mandated 65,000 H-1B visa cap for fiscal year 2019. USCIS has also received a sufficient number of H-1B petitions to meet the 20,000 visa U.S. advanced degree exemption, known as the master’s cap....

Premium Processing For H-1B’s May Be Suspended Again U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) indicated that it may again temporarily delay the ability to fast-track certain H-1B applications through premium processing. The suspension is expected to happen...