USCIS announced that that F-1 students seeking optional practical training (OPT) can now file Form I-765, Application for Employment Authorization, online if they are filing…
USCIS confirmed that it will no longer reject Form I-589, Application for Asylum and for Withholding of Removal; Form I-612, Application for Waiver of the Foreign…
USCIS has received enough electronic registrations during the initial registration period to reach the fiscal year (FY) 2022 H-1B cap including the advanced degree exemption (master’s…
USCIS announced that it is extending the flexibilities it announced on March 30, 2020 to assist certain applicants, petitioners, and requestors. These individuals include those who…
USCIS published a notice extending the designation of Syria for Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for 18 months, from March 31, 2021, through September 30, 2022, and…
The American Immigration Council and partners filed a lawsuit challenging USCIS’s arbitrary and capricious refusal to accept timely and properly filed H-1B petitions that are subject to…
USCIS published a final rule, effective March 9, 2021, removing from the Code of Federal Regulations the regulatory text that DHS promulgated in the August 2019 public…
USCIS announced it has received a sufficient number of petitions needed to reach the congressionally mandated 65,000 H-1B visa regular cap and the 20,000 H-1B visa…
An advance copy was made available of a USCIS final rule delaying until December 31, 2021, the effective date of the January 8, 2021, final rule creating a wage-based…
An advance copy was made available of a USCIS notification of two preliminary injunctions issued in 2020 against the final rule significantly altering the USCIS fee schedule, which was…
the 4th Circuit revived claims the USCIS has unreasonably delayed in placing five applicants for U visas on waiting lists so they can qualify for permits…
White House Chief of Staff Ron Klain issued a memorandum that directs, in part, that 1) all rules pending at the Federal Register that have not been published must…