Visa Lawyer Blog

Today is Veterans day, and I wanted to send warm wards of support to our Veterans and the active duty men and women fighting for our country day and night.

AILA provided a very important update from the State Department, we wish to share with our readers. The Department of State has issued comprehensive new policy guidance on the use of DNA testing in the visa application process. This new guidance is set forth in a new set of extensive…

The House of Representatives on Saturday night passed a sweeping health care bill by a vote of 220-215. In the next few weeks, this bill will be analyzed and there will be various summaries online regarding this important piece of legislation. I would like to focus on the Immigration related…

Most applicants that are married less than 2 years to a US citizen must file form I-751 to remove the conditions. The Immigration Marriage Fraud Amendments of 1986 (IMFA) contained a requirement to file a Petition for Removal of Condition during the 90-day period preceding the second anniversary of the…

USCIS recently issued a Memo that amends Adjudicator’s Field Manual on General Form I-140 Issues. Many issues are covered, but one of particular interest to our PERM readers is the Labor Certification Validity for Labor Certifications with an Ending Validity Date that Falls on a Saturday, Sunday or Federal Legal…

So is the economic downturn over already, if you look at the recent H1B filings it may well be the case. United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has updated its periodic count of FY2010 H-1B cap filings, revealing that there has been a significant increase in the rate of…

Here is a recent update from our local AILA office. All USCIS Application Support Centers (ASC’s) now operate Monday – Friday from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. For our district that includes the Chula Vista, San Marcos, and Imperial ASCs. Previously, the ACS’s accommodated special situations like requests for earlier…

On October 20, 2009 the U.S. Senate voted to pass the Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Bill Conference Report that contained a provision to end the widow penalty. The House of Representatives previously voted to pass the bill. The bill became Public Law Number 111-83 upon President Obama’s signature of…

The HIV ban removal will be remembered as a historic decision, through this final rule, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), amended its regulations to remove “Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) infection” from the definition of communicable disease of…

It is true to say that the current economic situation in our country is directly related to the problems we have in our Immigration system. In addition to the weak economy, companies have stopped filing for H1B visas in the face of anti-immigrant sentiment in Washington and rising costs associated…