The U NonImmigrant Visa was created by Congress in 2000 as a part of the Victims of Trafficking and Violence Protection Act (including the Battered Immigrant Women’s Protection Act). Its main purpose is to help ensure a safe lawful status for noncitizens who are victims of certain crimes, including domestic violence, felonious assault, sexual assault Read more about How A U-Visa Can Help You If You Are the Victim of a Crime[…]
This month has been relatively quiet as compared to the craziness of the election season and post-election actions, but we are beginning to see some much needed progress on the immigration front. Immigration Bills On March 18th, the House of Representatives passed two bills: The first, H.R. 6, provides a path to citizenship for 2.5 Read more about April 2021 Newsletter[…]
The past year has been one of the messiest years in immigration document processing we have ever seen. Between the Trump administration’s constant discouragement of immigration applications, and USCIS’s own issues with budget shortfalls and COVID-19 shutdowns, application processing times have suffered. Now, with President Biden in office, there is a push to get things Read more about How Long Will My Immigration Application Take to Be Processed?[…]
Immigration Bills All eyes are on Congress this week, for what has been dubbed “Immigration Week”. After spending much of the past month working on COVID-19 relief legislation, immigration reform finally gets its turn, with important votes on two bills: the Farm Workforce Modernization Act and the American Dream and Promise Act. The first aims Read more about March 2021 Newsletter[…]
With President Biden in his second month in office, things continue to change daily on the immigration front. The biggest thing happening this month is the attempt to pass several bills during the week of March 15th, dubbed “immigration week” by the Congressional Hispanic Caucus. A Comprehensive Immigration Bill vs. Several Smaller Bills In his Read more about Immigration Week in Congress and an End to the Green Card Freeze[…]
Biden’s First Weeks It has been a busy month! We were happy to see that President Biden kept his word and made immigration one of his biggest priorities, signing a number of policy documents in his first week in office. The first, a memorandum to the Attorney General, protects the DACA program by encouraging him Read more about February 2021 Newsletter[…]
So far, President Biden is keeping his promise to make immigration one of his biggest priorities upon entering office. In his first week in office, he signed four key documents to immediately undo some of the damage the Trump administration did to the country’s immigration policies. These included: a memorandum to the Attorney General, which Read more about Understanding the New U.S. Citizenship Act of 2021[…]
Happy 2021! We hope this year will be a healthy and successful one for all of you. While we may have hoped that the Trump administration’s last month in office might be a quiet one, it seems that this was too much to ask for. We all watched in horror as protesters broke into the Read more about January 2021 Newsletter[…]
With President Biden’s inauguration just days away, we are all waiting to see what this will mean for the direction of the country going forward, and specifically, for immigration policy. Indeed, it seems like even the results of the election themselves have already helped to change the conversation around immigration, even before Biden has taken Read more about Immigration Policy Update: What You Need to Know[…]
DACA Update It would seem that, with the election behind us, we are finally beginning to see some good news for immigration policy. On December 4, 2020, Judge Nicholas Garaufis of the Eastern District of New York ordered the government to reinstate the DACA program fully and immediately! U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) updated Read more about December 2020 Newsletter[…]