Category Archive for "Immigration News"

USCIS to Accept H-1B Petitions for Fiscal Year 2014 on April 1, 2013

Mar 21 2013

WASHINGTON—U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced today that it will begin accepting H-1B petitions subject to the Fiscal Year…

Deferred Enforced Departure Extended for Liberians

Mar 21 2013

WASHINGTON – U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) today announced its intention to automatically extend employment authorization documents (EADs) for…

E-Verify Receives High Ratings in Customer Survey

Mar 12 2013

WASHINGTON—U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Director Alejandro Mayorkas today announced that users of E-Verify, the free Internet-based system that allows…

USCIS Revises Employment Eligibility Verification Form I-9

Mar 12 2013

WASHINGTON – U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) today published a revised Employment Eligibility Verification Form I-9 for use. All…

Supreme Court Holds Padilla Does Not Apply Retroactively

Feb 20 2013

The Court found that Padilla v. Kentucky, in which the Supreme Court held that counsel must inform noncitizen clients whether…

USCIS Celebrates Presidents’ Day with Special Naturalization Ceremonies

Feb 19 2013

USCIS celebrates Presidents’ Day by welcoming thousands of new citizens in special naturalization ceremonies across the nation. Presidents’ Day celebrations…

USCIS to Welcome More Than 19,000 New Citizens

Feb 19 2013

WASHINGTON—U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) will recognize Presidents Day, welcoming more than 19,000 people as U.S. citizens during 135…

DHS Announces Redesignations and 18-Month Extensions of Temporary Protected Status for Sudan and South Sudan

Jan 28 2013

Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano today redesignated Sudan and South Sudan for Temporary Protected Status (TPS) and extended the…

Bipartisan Framework for Comprehensive Immigration Reform

Jan 28 2013

We recognize that our immigration system is broken. And while border security has improved significantly over the last two Administrations,…

USCIS Begins Transition to Centralized Policy Manual

Jan 07 2013

WASHINGTON—U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) today began the agency’s transition toward an online, centralized manual of immigration policies by…