October 2023 Visa Bulletin Updates With the start of the government’s Fiscal Year 2024, the October 2023 visa bulletin has finally moved dates forward again, after retrogressions in multiple employment based visa categories over the summer of 2023. USCIS has…
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Immigration Quick Takes — June 2023
Domestic Visa Renewal In early 2023, the U.S. Department of State announced a new plan that allows for domestic (“stateside”) visa stamp renewal for H and L visa holders. Restoring stateside visa stamp renewals- which were discontinued in 2004- means…
Immigration Quick Takes — January 2023
USCIS Expands Premium Processing to Multinational Manager and NIW Categories For years, immigrant visa petitions in the EB-1C Multinational Executive/Manager and EB-2 National Interest Waiver (NIW) categories have been subject to long processing times, ranging from 1 year to more…
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Posted in Immigration Law
November 2022 Visa Bulletin & Immigrant Visa Availability
Fiscal Year 2023 began on October 1, 2022 with approximately 60,000 unused family-based visas from FY 2022 rolling over into the FY 2023 employment-based allocation. With these additional visas, in total, there are approximately 200,000 immigrant visas available to employment-based…
Immigration Quick Takes – March 2021
> USCIS Reverts to Naturalization Civics Test Used Since 2008 Immigration law requires that most foreign nationals seeking to naturalize as U.S. citizens demonstrate a knowledge and understanding of the history, and of the principles and form of government, of…
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