USCIS Responds to Recent Concerns Regarding Processing Times

USCIS announced that starting in January 2021, it will replace the sticker that is currently issued to lawful permanent residents to extend the validity of their Form I-551, Permanent Resident Card (PRC or “Green Card”), with a revised Form I-797, Notice of Action, for Form I-90, Application to Replace Permanent Resident Card. The revised I-797 receipt notice, together with an applicant’s PRC, will serve as temporary evidence of lawful permanent resident status for 12 months from the expiration date on the face of the PRC.

USCIS has approved Applicant’s I-601. Applicant’s Form I-601A was approved. Applicant left the United States to attend his interview for an immigrant visa.

In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, USCIS is extending flexibilities that were previously announced on March 30, 2020, to assist applicants and petitioners who are responding to… 

As a result of class action litigation in Vangala v. USCIS challenging USCIS’s No Blank Space” policy, USCIS has agreed to stop implementing the rejection policy for asylum… 

USCIS announced via the Form I-589 webpage that beginning November 2, 2020, asylum offices will no longer accept the filing of Forms I-589 that previously were…