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7 Sep 2020, 10:04 am by Paul Rosenzweig, Vishnu Kannan
Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) to install Ken Cuccinelli as acting director of USCIS under the FVRA, a move that the U.S. [read post]
19 Jun 2012, 1:28 am by Andre Olivie, Esq.
It’s not as good as the Dream Act but is still a huge change in immigration policy. [read post]
18 Jun 2008, 7:00 pm
Citizen and Immigration Services (USCIS) Acting Director Jonathan Scharfen said, following his testimony June 10, 2008, on E-Verify before the House Immigration, Citizenship, Refugees, Border Security and International Law Committee. [read post]
18 Oct 2011, 6:26 am by Brian D. Lerner
Answer: On November 19, 2007, Cejka, the Director of the San Francisco Office of USCIS, sent a letter acknowledging receipt of Hajro’s FOIA request and informing him that it did not qualify for expedited processing and would be processed on the Track 2 “complex track. [read post]
24 Feb 2011, 11:11 am by Sheila Velez Martinez
As an office within the Department of Justice, EOIR is headed by a Director who reports directly to the Deputy Attorney General. [read post]
For those born in the Philippines (or who are otherwise chargeable to the Philippines) who wish to opt out of being in the F1 category, and remain in the F2B category, the current process for “opting out” is to send in a written request to the USCIS Field Office Director in Manila. http://www.uscis.gov/about-us/find-uscis-office/international-offices/philippines-manila-field-office. [read post]
31 Dec 2013, 5:38 am by Angelo A. Paparelli
 This IMMI goes to USCIS Director Alejandro Mayorkas (since confirmed as Deputy Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security) who achieved more than any previous Director of USCIS or Commissioner of the legacy agency, Immigration and Naturalization Service, in my 35+ year lifetime as an immigration attorney. [read post]
29 Oct 2019, 2:05 pm by Michael H. Neifach
Acting Director of USCIS Ken Cuccinelli explained that this is not an extension of TPS for El Salvador, as that has a specific legal meaning, but “[r]ather, work permits for Salvadorans will be extended for 1 year past resolution of litigation for an orderly wind down period. [read post]
2 Mar 2014, 5:21 am by Angelo A. Paparelli
S9072-S9079), the EB-5 regional center program figured more prominently than any other subject managed by Director Mayorkas during his four-year term at USCIS. [read post]
19 Dec 2019, 4:30 pm by Jacob Sapochnick
USCIS Memorandum Indicates Upcoming Changes to Naturalization Exam in 2020 On May 3, 2019, a memorandum was released by USCIS Director Francis Cissna indicating the possibility of new changes being enacted for the naturalization examination beginning December 2020 to early 2021. [read post]
18 Nov 2012, 11:43 am by Angelo A. Paparelli
  The Fraud Detection and National Security Directorate (FDNS) of USCIS has no place in an agency charged with conferring immigration benefits on deserving petitioners and applicants. [read post]
3 Mar 2010, 10:56 am by Eugene Volokh
On Jan. 27, 2009, Donald Neufeld, Acting Associate Director for Domestic Operations, USCIS, Department of Homeland Security, concluded that the U.S. is “not in a ‘state of war’ as that term is used in the [statute],” because that term in that statute “means a congressionally declared state of war,” and neither the 2001 Authorization for Use of Military Force against various terrorist groups, nor the 2002 Authorization for Use of Military… [read post]
18 Mar 2012, 1:55 pm by Angelo A. Paparelli
  Publicly proclaiming one's unauthorized immigration status is clearly a courageous act. [read post]
24 Jun 2016, 9:48 am by Angelo A. Paparelli
 To be sure, USCIS has tasked its Fraud Detection and National Security Directorate to make unannounced site visits to projects and regional centers and called for investor interviews when the issue of removing conditions on residency are to be ultimately adjudicated. [read post]
8 Jan 2012, 1:44 pm by admin
While there is still a requirement to demonstrate an employer-employee relationship, the August 02, 2011 announcement by the United States Citizenship & Immigration Service (USCIS) seems to concede that this requirement can be demonstrated even when the owner of the company is being sponsored on a H-1B visa as long as the applicant can demonstrate that others example a Board of Directors has the ability and the authority to make personnel decisions including, hiring, firing,… [read post]
The act, if signed into law, would require that USCIS defer to its own prior rulings, except in cases of “material change, fraud or legal deficiency. [read post]
4 Apr 2024, 9:30 pm by Brian Connor
USCIS last raised its fees in 2016. [read post]
25 Nov 2011, 5:00 am
Generally, a crime of moral turpitude is defined as a crime that encompasses a base or vile act. [read post]
19 Aug 2012, 3:56 pm by Angelo A. Paparelli
USCIS knows that Congress, the Media, the Presidential campaigns, and the pro- and anti-immigration interest groups will be watching closely to see whether the agency can handle the estimated 1.7 million youth potentially eligible for DACA, whether fraud will infect the program or be minimized, whether the agency will act with humanitarian compassion under law or ICE-like negativity in exercising prosecutorial discretion, and whether employers who help a DREAMer acknowledge… [read post]