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Immigration Newsletter – December 2011
As you read this newsletter, our office is celebrating its 14th year in serving the Vietnamese community in Houston and the surrounding areas. Looking back throughout these years, the office has assisted thousands of people to be with their family members or to become a United States citizen. In addition, we have represented hundreds of people before the immigration courts to seek an opportunity to remain in the United States. Of course, all of these years in service would not be possible without the support of our clients. Thank you for your support and for your continuing your trust in our office to handle your matters.
To better assist our clients, the office has made major changes since the beginning of this year. The first change that you already notice is the office’s monthly newsletter. The newsletter, in English and Vietnamese, is a direct means to reach to our clients, or prospective clients to inform, or to update of any changes in the U.S. immigration and nationality law. It is also a means to alert our clients of any immigration related matters that are of utmost importance or time sensitive in nature. For example, the first alert that was sent was the Fifth Circuit’s decision in Khalid v. Holder.
The second change is that the office has produced a weekly one-hour immigration program that has been airing with Vietface 51.2 in Houston and 55.2 in Dallas. In addition, the archives of these programs can be viewed on our website, www.luatsutuan.com. We have invested countless hours to produce the programs that we hope would be educational for our clients and the general viewers.
Our office’s website underwent a major reconstruction in November 2011. We have created a blog section that allows the office to instantly update any news information, or to upload video programs and the newsletter, and to blog from any social media outlets. We are in the process of creating the Vietnamese version for the website, and hopefully within a year, our clients may track the progress of their petitions through our website.
We have made significant progress, and this progress is not possible without the support from our clients. Thank you again for your support, and we hope you have a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.
Temporary Protected Status Re-registration Period for Honduran and Nicaraguan Nationals Ends Jan. 5, 2012
WASHINGTON – U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) reminds its customers that the open re-registration period for Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for nationals of Honduras and Nicaragua ends on Jan. 5, 2012.
Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano extended TPS for eligible nationals of Honduras and Nicaragua for an additional 18 months, beginning Jan. 6, 2012, and ending July 5, 2013.
To re-register, current TPS beneficiaries must submit an Application for Temporary Protected Status, Form I-821. TPS re-registrants must also submit an Application for Employment Authorization, Form I-765, regardless of whether they are applying for an Employment Authorization Document (EAD).
USCIS Reminds Sheepherding Industry that One-Time Accommodation Ends in January 2012
USCIS reminds the sheepherding industry of the upcoming expiration of the one-time accommodation giving them more time to fully transition to the three-year limitation-of-stay requirements for the H-2A nonimmigrant classification.
USCIS announced its limitation-of-stay requirements under a final rule that became effective on Jan. 17, 2009.
The agency granted a one-time accommodation for sheepherders in H-2A status in December 2009 in deference to their industry’s prior exemption from the three-year limitation. This exemption did not impact other H-2A categories.
USCIS Announces Changes to Stand-Alone I-130 Filing Locations
WASHINGTON – U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) will change the filing locations for Form I-130, Petition for Alien Relative. Effective Jan. 1, 2012, domestic petitioners will mail their stand-alone I-130 applications to either the Chicago Lockbox or the Phoenix Lockbox, depending on where they reside in the United States. The new filing locations will be updated with the corresponding addresses on Jan. 1 on the Form I-130 Direct Filing Locations page. This effort will balance workloads between the two locations and provide more efficient and effective processing of Form I-130.
There will be no change in filing locations when submitting Form I-130 along with Form I-485, Application to Register Permanent Residence or Adjust Status. Individuals filing these forms together will continue to mail them to the Chicago Lockbox facility. Petitioners filing from overseas addresses in countries without USCIS offices will also continue to file at the Chicago Lockbox facility. Petitioners residing in a country with a USCIS office may send their I-130 forms to the Chicago Lockbox, or they may file their Forms I-130 at the international USCIS office having jurisdiction over the area where they live.
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