A memo from Julie Myers, the Assistant Secretary at U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), has recently been posted to the USCIS web site. In the memo, dated July 3, 2008, Ms. Myers informs all special agents and field office directors to "refrain from...
Beginning November 23rd, overall fees for USCIS immigration benefits will experience an increase of ten percent, with naturalization applications undergoing no change and the fees for six individual applications experiencing a decrease. The fee adjustment ruling comes...
The Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit overturned an injunction allowing special immigrant religious workers to file their Form I-485, Application to Register Permanent Residence or Adjust Status, concurrently with the Form I-360, Petition for Amerasian,...
With the November elections approaching, the likelihood for comprehensive federal immigration reform is unfortunately minimal to non existent. For the remainder of the year, and possibly for sometime after, we anticipate immigration reform taking a back seat to other...
The Pew Center for Hispanic Research reported in September that the annual inflow of unauthorized immigrants to the U.S. was down significantly from March 2007 to March 2009 when compared to the same period from 2000 to 2005. This decrease resulted in an 8% reduction...
In July, the Vital Statistics Office of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico began issuing new, more secure certified copies of birth certificates to U.S. citizens born in the territory. Any certified copies of birth certificates issued prior to July 1, 2010 will become...
On September 16, ICE released a notice of the agency’s intent to issue more than 500 Notices of Inspections (NOI) to companies throughout the United States in the following week. According to ICE, the up tick in inspections is due to a growing number of leads on...
Good news for waiting Legal Permanent Resident applicants as the September Visa Bulletin, published by the Department of State, shows another month of improvements. (Click here to see the August 2010 Visa Bulletin). The September Visa Bulletin published the following...