Processing times for USCIS Forms like N-400 and I-485 increased in recent years, and USCIS has announced that it aims to decrease these processing times. If you haven’t applied already, then this is a good time to do so. Get started on your Form N-400 Application for U.S. Citizenship today or Form I-485 Application to …
Processing times for Form N-400 and Form I-485 might decreaseRead More »
President Trump kicked off his 2020 re-election campaign in Orlando, Florida and later expressed via Twitter his intent to remove “millions” of illegal immigrants. According to an official announcement made to the Associated Press, this operation will be mainly focused on people who have been issued a final deportation order by a federal judge but …
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President Trump is shaking up the immigration space again. The current director of United States Citizenship and Immigration Services, Francis Cissna, has put in his resignation at the request of President Trump. This resignation is effective starting June 1, 2019, according to an email he sent to USCIS staff. Cissna had been the director of …
It seems that the president’s senior advisor and son-in-law, Jared Kushner, is behind this latest immigration plan. Kushner partnered with various conservative groups to create an immigration proposal that would attract “the best and brightest from all around the world” to the United States. The plan is likely to have many opponents and faces …
Trump: New Immigration Plan will be the “Envy of the World”Read More »
President Donald Trump has created a new rift between his party and corporate America with the decision to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, which helped protect from the threat of deportation thousands of young undocumented immigrants who arrived in the US as minors. The chief executives of many companies were outraged by …
On Tuesday, the Trump administration formally announced the end of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals. The Department of Homeland Security will no longer process new applications for the deferred action program, which protected almost 800,000 undocumented immigrant youngsters who came to the US as minors. Attorney General, Jeff Sessions made the announcement at the …
The refugee and immigration policies being pursued by President Obama give a “paid vacation” to refugees while putting yet more burdens on struggling families and endangering “tens of thousands” of American lives, according to US Republican and Alabama Representative Mo Brooks. The scathing remarks were made by Brooks last Friday when he appeared on the …
US immigration policies put thousands at risk, legislator claimsRead More »
Democratic presidential candidate nominee Bernie Sanders has promised that he would expand upon the executive actions on immigration taken by President Obama within the first 100 days of his presidency if elected in 2016 and create a more “humane” immigration system. The Vermont senator made his comments in a statement detailing his plan, which was …
Sanders to build upon executive actions if electedRead More »
Even as immigration advocates call for H-1B US visa quotas to be increased, legislators and immigration groups are calling for the existing system to be reformed in a manner that would be the exact opposite and limit the number of visas available. Ranking Democrat senator Dick Durbin and Chuck Grassley, the chairman of the Senate …
Immigration bill to limit tech skilled worker visasRead More »
The US Supreme Court was asked on Monday by the state of Texas to give it additional time to file court papers regarding its battle with the federal government over the executive actions taken on immigration reform by President Obama. If the Supreme Court agrees to the delay, any ruling might be postponed until there …
Supreme Court review of immigration case faces delayRead More »
This year around 45,000 Cubans are expected to make use of buses, boats, taxis and their own two feet to travel to the United States from South and Central American countries such as Ecuador, fearful that the warmer relations between Cuba and the US will result in an end to the special immigration privileges that …
