USCIS Policy Manual Update
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) issues policy guidance on “residence” requirements for acquiring citizenship
Release Date: Aug. 28, 2019
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Statement Regarding a Policy Update Defining “Residence” in Statutory Provisions Related to Citizenship
Today, Acting USCIS Director Ken Cuccinelli issued the following statement regarding a policy update Defining “Residence” in Statutory Provisions Related to Citizenship.
I-90, Application to Replace Permanent Resident Card
Did you get an email (PDF, 438 KB), a text message, or a postcard (PDF, 1.06 MB) from USCIS letting you know that you can file Form I-90 online? If you did, it should look like one of these examples.
Official communications sent by USCIS:
Rajiv's News Clips - The long, winding road to H-1B just got narrower
Quotes and Excerpts from Rajiv on the article:
USCIS Helps Detect Marriage Fraud Ring
Release Date: Aug. 20, 2019
The Bridgeport resident pleaded guilty to arranging numerous fraudulent marriages so noncitizens could obtain Green Cards.
USCIS Announces Final Rule Enforcing Long-Standing Public Charge Inadmissibility Law
Regulation promotes self-sufficiency and immigrant success
USCIS Issues Guidance on Discretionary Employment Authorization for Parolees
WASHINGTON—U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) today issued policy guidance (PDF, 305 KB) in the USCIS Policy Manual to address its discretion to grant employment authorization to foreign nationals who are paroled into the United States, including those who are otherwise inadmissible.
USCIS Returns Unselected Fiscal Year 2020 H-1B Cap-Subject Petitions
USCIS has returned all fiscal year (FY) 2020 H-1B cap-subject petitions that were not selected in our computer-generated random selection process. On May 17, USCIS announced that it had completed data entry of all selected H-1B cap-subject petitions for FY 2020.
Rajiv's Comments in the News - H-1B visa denials at all-time high
Rajiv S Khanna, Managing Attorney at law firm Immigration.com, said, “Rate of denials have gone up across the board in all legal immigration cases, especially (relating to) H-1B visas. The government has created an environment where the responses for the RFEs have increased from 30-50 pages to 600-1,000 pages for an H-1B case. It has increased its own burden of processing cases and that’s why cases are taking much longer to process than they used to.”
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USCIS Seoul Field Office: Processing for Form I-600 Petitions Filed on Behalf of a Child from the Republic of Korea
The last day the USCIS Seoul field office will be open to the public is Aug. 16, 2019. Effective Aug. 17, 2019, the USCIS Seoul field office will no longer accept or process new Forms I-600A, Application for Advance Processing of Orphan Petition, or Forms I-600, Petition to Classify Orphan as an Immediate Relative. Therefore, the last date to file a Form I-600A or Form I-600 locally with USCIS Seoul is Aug.