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The H-2B Program

The H-2B non-agricultural temporary worker program allows U.S. employers to bring foreign nationals to the United States to fill temporary non-agricultural jobs.
For more information about the H-2B program, see the link to the left under "H-2B Non-Agricultural Workers." 

I-485 Pending Inventory has been updated for the month of January 2014. The “Pending Employment-Based Form I-485 Report,” displays the total number of pending adjustment of status applications, per preference classification. The report shows how many pending adjustment of status (green card) applications in each preference classification have priority dates in a given month and year.

The Consolidated Natural Resources Act of 2008 (CNRA) extended U.S. immigration laws to the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI), and authorized the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to create the CNMI-Only Transitional Worker (CW-1) program to ensure adequate employment in the CNMI until the program is phased out on December 31, 2014.

The United States Mission to Nigeria is pleased to announce an expansion of the Drop Box Visa Renewal Program, tentatively to start of June 9th.  This program allows certain visa applicants who have previously been issued U.S. visas to renew their visas without attending an interview.

In order to implement the Department's IT modernization initiative and new cloud computing requirements, the OFLC Chicago National Processing Center (NPC) deactivated the following email boxes on February 3, 2014:

Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals Processing Updates:  2012‐2014 First Quarter

See the Customer Servce Guide: How Do I Request Consideration of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals in multiple languages below.

According to the latest report from "Indian Express"

he Obama Administration has expressed hope that the US Congress would be able to pass the immigration reform bill, even as the House of Representative  Speaker John Boehner remained doubtful about it.

Release Date: February 7, 2014

I begin by thanking the Woodrow Wilson Center and the Aspen Homeland Security Group for inviting me to speak here today.

I also want to thank Jane Harman for your leadership, your continued service to our country, and your willingness to be a supporter, mentor and advisor to me and to numerous others around this town. When Jane Harman advises, I listen.

USCIS released three short video vignettes for employees and employers that demonstrate how to complet

SEVIS by the Numbers is a statistical summary report produced using data compiled from SEVIS. This report provides a snap-shot of relevant and useful information and is used as a resource by a variety of SEVP stakeholders and partner agencies.  

This quarterly review is based on information retrieved on January 15, 2014. As SEVIS is a real-time database, exact numbers within this review were accurate as of the date retrieved. 

• Form I-290B (299 KB PDF)
• Instructions for Form I-290B (270 KB PDF)
• Form G-1145, E-Notification of Acceptance of Application/Petition (239 KB PDF)

Purpose of Form

Effective February 11, 2014 The Department authorizes a reduction in reciprocity for business and tourist visa categories for Mauritanian visa applicants.

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