The Center for Disease Control (CDC) issued an order on August 25, 2021 which requires most green card applicants to receive a COVID-19 vaccine and be fully vaccinated. Otherwise, they will be considered inadmissible to the U.S. The order takes effect on October 1, 2021, and applies to both persons applying for adjustment of status […]
The new government fiscal year which starts on October 1, 2021 will be the best year ever for employment-based immigration. Generally, 140,000 persons annually are able to get green cards through employment-based immigration. However, in the coming fiscal year, the number will more than double to over 290,000. Why? Because of the pandemic, U.S. Embassies […]
On May 27, 2021, John Trasviña, the Principal Legal Advisor for ICE, sent a memo to government attorneys enabling them to use prosecutorial discretion to dismiss pending cases in Immigration Court and to refrain from placing certain persons in removal proceedings. This memo could save many thousands of people, perhaps hundreds of thousands, from deportation. […]
If you are interested in knowing how the dates in the Visa Bulletin will advance or retrogress in the future, we are thrilled to tell you about the best way to do so, on the State Department’s new program entitled Chats with Charlie. However, Charlie is retiring from the State Department on December 3, 2021. […]
On March 3, the American Dream and Promise Act of 2021 (H.R. 6) was introduced in the House of Representatives. The bill would offer a pathway to citizenship not only to the undocumented, but also to thousands of children of parents who came to the U.S. with certain types of temporary working visas, many of […]
The U.S. Citizenship Act of 2021 was introduced in the House of Representatives (H.R. 1177) and in the Senate in February 2021. Much has been written about how the bill would create a pathway to U.S. citizenship for DACA recipients, TPS holders, H-2A farmworkers and 11 million undocumented persons. The bill also contains provisions which […]
The USCIS announced that employers subject to the H-1B cap can begin registering online at noon Eastern Time on March 9, 2021. H-1B Online Registration will end at noon Eastern Time on March 25. On March 31, USCIS will begin notifying employers as to which workers were selected in the lottery. For each person chosen […]
On January 20, 2021, President Biden sent the U.S. Citizenship Act of 2021 to Congress. The bill was introduced in the House of Representatives on February 18 and in the Senate on February 22. We will continue to follow the progress of this very important piece of legislation. The bill would modernize our immigration system […]
President-Elect Biden and Congress have the opportunity to act on an important, if much overlooked, immigration issue in 2021. The passage of a simple amendment could prevent thousands of family members who follow the law from being separated for years, decades or even a lifetime through no fault of their own. Generally, when a person […]
The Biden Immigration Plan would restore and improve our current immigration system. On January 20, 2021, President Biden signed a number of Executive Orders reversing some of Trump’s immigration policies. Some of these changes can be implemented within the first 100 days of the Biden Presidency, others must be passed by both the House of […]
