We has learned that the USCIS hold on adjudication of cases involving same-sex partners has been lifted. An announcement by immigration officials in Washington on Monday that they were delaying decisions on some immigration cases involving gay couples led to a surge of expectations among gay advocates that the Obama…
UPDATE: Facing GOP objections, Democrats are putting aside the Dream Act. They’re short of the 60 votes needed to advance the measure. Democratic officials say they’ll to move the House-passed version after the Senate acts on funding the government and extending tax cuts. Republicans have said they won’t agree to…
Here is a quick update from the field. Processing waiver applications is the main work of the USCIS office at the consulate. Naturally, the consulate makes an initial determination of inadmissibility. If the applicant is eligible to submit a waiver, he or she is instructed to phone the Teletech Call…
Below is a summary of the December 2010 Visa Bulletin with respect to employment-based petitions: * EB-1 remains current across the board. * EB-2 Line ( World), Mexico and Philippines remain current, EB-2 China moves forward by one (1) week to June 8, 2006, while EB-2 India remains (again, for…
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi wants to push for a vote during the lame-duck session on a bill that would legalize young, undocumented immigrants if they attend college or serve in the military, according to Democratic sources familiar with a leadership conference call Wednesday. A vote on the bill, known as…
It is election day in San Diego and all 1,466 polling locations in San Diego County opened on time today, and no major voting problems have been reported, the Registrar of Voters said. How will this election results affect Immigration will remain to be seen. The Republican class set to…
On August 18, 2010 we were the first to report the new trend coming from some local Immigration offices, mainly San Diego, regarding Visa Waiver overstay Issues. To recap a recent internal Memo from San Diego stated the following: ” To all Adjudicators effective immediately, any immigrants that have entered…
The U.S. Department of State has recently announced that the online registration period for the Diversity Visa Lottery Program for Fiscal Year 2012 (DV-2012) will be from October 5, 2010 until November 3, 2010. The official online application form is available only on the Department of State Diversity Visa online…
According to TRAC, Justice Department data show that Immigration Judges are declining substantially fewer requests for asylum. Denial rates have reached the lowest level in the last quarter of a century. Twenty five years ago, in FY 1986, almost nine out of ten (89%) of the asylum requests in the…