US Immigration Blog by former INS Trial Attorney Carl Shusterman. How to get a temporary working visa, a green card and U.S. citizenship.
On July 4, 2025, President Trump signed the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” into law. It contains a number of significant immigration provisions including new fees for various immigration-related applications. In most cases, these fees are in addition to existing fees. The fees listed are minimum fees that could increase by regulation and annually for […]
Expect significant changes in the U.S. immigration system come January 20, 2025. President Trump’s Immigration Policies will be very different from those of Biden’s. On December 10, 2024, we participated in a Zoom webinar hosted by the United Nations Agency of the USA (San Fernando Valley Chapter) discussing these upcoming changes. We discussed the following subjects: Mass […]
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is the largest investigative agency in the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS). The agency’s primary mission is to protect national security, public safety and the integrity of the U.S. borders through the criminal and civil enforcement of federal laws governing border control, customs, trade and immigration. The agency’s […]
H-1B News helps to keep you up-to-date with the changes being made to the H-1B visa program by the current administration. For more information on how to get an H-1B visa, see our H-1B Visa Guide. H-1B Visa News is divided into the following topics: H-1B NEWS – ARTICLES GOVERNMENT RESOURCES FIGHTING BACK AGAINST RFEs […]
Once you have a green card, how and when can you become a US citizen through naturalization (“natz”)? The process of becoming a citizen of the United States is becoming increasingly complex, lengthy and expensive. When I worked for the INS as a Natz Attorney, the N-400 citizenship application was just 4 pages long and […]
On November 7, 2024 a federal judge struck down Biden’s Parole-in-Place program that aimed to ease a path to citizenship for some undocumented spouses and step-children of U.S. citizens. On August 20, 2024, the USCIS began accepting parole-in-place applications for certain undocumented spouses and children of US citizens. Obtaining parole-in-place will allow these undocumented spouses […]
In April 2021, the US Supreme Court held that a defective NTA does not give the government jurisdiction to place a person in removal proceedings. An NTA is a Notice to Appear in Immigration Court. Update: On November 19, 2024, the BIA issued Matter of Larios-Gutierrez de Pablo and Pablo-Larios, which held that Matter of Fernandes’s […]
Section 245k of the immigration law allows most employment-based applicants to adjust status in the US even if they overstayed or violated their status for a certain period of time. For persons in the family-based categories and some of the employment-based categories, in order to adjust their status in the US, persons must maintain their […]
On June 28, 2024, the US Supreme Court overturned the Chevron Deference Doctrine. In 1984, the Supreme Court ruled in the Chevron case that when a federal statute is ambiguous, federal courts should defer to the agency’s interpretation of the law as long as their interpretation is “reasonable”. While overturning the Chevron Deference Doctrine will […]
