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USCIS Resumes Premium Processing for Certain Petitions
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services today announced that it will resume premium processing for Form I-129, Petition for a Nonimmigrant Worker and Form I-140, Immigrant Petition for Alien Workers, in phases over the next month.
Effective June 1, 2020, USCIS will accept Form I-907, Request for Premium Processing Service for all eligible Form I-140 petitions.
USCIS Begins Implementing New Interactive Voice Response Telephone System
USCIS is introducing a new interactive voice response (IVR) telephone system today for English and Spanish calls to the USCIS Contact Center. The new IVR system personalizes the caller’s experience by giving the caller the ability to:
USCIS Publishes Interim Final Rule Implementing the Northern Mariana Islands U.S. Workforce Act of 2018
Rule creates new requirements for CNMI employers to protect U.S. workers
DHS Offers Flexibilities to Increase Food Security, Stabilize U.S. Supply Chain During COVID-19
WASHINGTON—The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has announced a temporary final rule to change certain H-2B requirements to help support the U.S. food supply chain, maintain essential infrastructure operations and reduce the impact from the coronavirus (COVID-19) public health emergency.
Military Personnel and Veterans Can Now File Their Form N-400, Naturalization Application, Online
WASHINGTON — U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services today announced that U.S. service members and veterans can now file Form N-400, Application for Naturalization, online.
USCIS Extends Flexibility for Responding to Agency Requests
In response to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services is extending the flexibilities it announced on March 30 to assist applicants and petitioners who are responding to certain:
May 14, 2020 Recording of Free Community Conference Call (Every Other Thursday)
Nonimmigrant Visas
Immigration Law
FAQs:
- Covid Coronavirus: H-B during Covid, H-1B not sure if I am laid off, LCA/H-1B amendments, and travel during H-1B
- H-1B start own business or invest
- Promotion after getting the green card
- Extraordinary circumstance EAD
- Extension of tourist stay during Covid
- H-1B delayed entry
May 28, 2020 Recording of Free Community Conference Call (Every Other Thursday)
Green Card
Discussion Topics, Thursday, 28 May 2020:
FAQ: Applying for I-485 through a past employer or through a new employer || L-1A moving back to home country with green card pending || Can green card be applied for an old job under the international manager EB1C category? || Applying for naturalization/citizenship under Trump administration || Effect on H-1B of working from outside the USA || Laid off while green card is pending
Other: Porting priority date from EB-2 two EB-1C as international manager || J-1 gap in status/O-1 visa || H-1 RFE converting to H-4 || Amendment or extension timing || Nunc pro tunc or consular processing of H-1B || H-4 extensions || OPT and CPT times || International adoption procedures || F-1 student working in the USA for a foreign company, etc.
AAO Processing Times
AAO Processing Times as of November 01, 2010.
Guestbook Entry for Soni, United States
New Application and Petition Fees Go Into Effect on Nov. 23, 2010
WASHINGTON - U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) reminds customers that its new fee schedule goes into effect Nov. 23, 2010. Applications or petitions postmarked or otherwise filed on or after this date must include the new fee, or they will be rejected.
Interview Experience at Centennial, CO
Interview Experience at Centennial, CO
Reached the DO at 7:10 am My interview was scheduled for 08:45 the security guard said I’m too early to come back 8: 15 Am .After Pass through the security I had wait 30 minutes before my name was called by IO white guy around 50 very professional he asked me to raise my right hand and swore me in and then he asked me to lay out my GC RP and Driver license he start the civics test
1. What is the name of the national anthem?
The Star-Spangled Banner
2. What ocean is on the West Coast of the United States?
Pacific (Ocean)
Citizenship and Naturalization
USCIS Launches Spanish-Language Engagement Series
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) launched the first in a series of quarterly public engagements in Spanish. Each session will focus on a specific immigration or citizenship topic and include a live question-and-answer session with USCIS officials.
“Public service is a core mission of our agency,” said USCIS Director Alejandro Mayorkas. “These Spanish-language sessions expand our ongoing efforts to communicate with the many communities we serve.”
EB-1 Outstanding Researcher approved for MS in EE and Telecom. Engg.
We filed an EB-1, Outstanding Researcher petition premium processing for the beneficiary who qualified based on her extraordinary contributions in applied sciences. Her substantial and highly innovative contributions paved the way for commercial manufacturing of flexible displays by major, well-known display manufacturing companies. The beneficiary’s commercialized research was well documented. She has over eight years of research experience in the nanotechnology field producing a multitude of patents.
Profession/Occupation
Green Card
Visa Bulletin - December 2010
Number 27
Volume IX
Washington, D.C.
A. STATUTORY NUMBERS
Agency
Green Card
Visa Bulletin -December 2010
Visa Bulletin for the month of December 2010.
DHS Announces Anti-Fraud Enhancements to E-Verify
For Immediate Release
Office of the Press Secretary
Contact: 202-282-8010
WASHINGTON–Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Janet Napolitano and U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) Director Alejandro Mayorkas today announced the expansion of the E-Verify program's capabilities to include U.S. passport photo matching—further enhancing the integrity of the program by enabling E-Verify to automatically check the validity and authenticity of all U.S. passports and passport cards presented for employment verification checks.
USCIS Introduces First-Ever Fee Waiver Form
New Form Results from Extensive Collaboration with the Public
WASHINGTON—For the first time, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) is introducing a standardized form for requesting waivers of the fees charged for immigration-benefit processing. Form I-912, Request for Fee Waiver, will become available for use on Nov. 23, 2010 – the same day USCIS’s latest fee schedule takes effect.
US Consulates in India Will Accept Application Without Regard to Your Residence
November 18, 2010
New Delhi - In an effort to make the visa application process more convenient for all Indians, the U.S. Embassy in
New Delhi and Consulates General in Mumbai, Chennai, Kolkata and Hyderabad now accept visa applications from
across India at all visa facilities, regardless of the applicant’s home address or city of residence. This is part of
Mission India’s ongoing effort to facilitate legitimate travel to the United States.
Following the opening of Consulate General Hyderabad in 2008, the U.S. Mission has looked for ways to best capture