Chinese and Indian immigrants, many with work or student US visas, have now surpassed Mexicans as the biggest groups coming to the United States, US Census Bureau data has revealed. Although Mexicans still make up the overall majority of immigrants in the country, accounting for over one-quarter of all people born overseas, 147,000 of the …
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 …
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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 …
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President Donald Trump has refused to sign government funding legislation that does not include $5 billion for a wall between Mexico and the U.S. This resulted in a government shutdown, which in turn has resulted in the closure of a number of immigration courts handling immigration cases. Apart from immigration courts, many other services have …
Do you know that an application you file with the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) could be denied if you happen to make a mistake while completing it? USCIS adopted a new policy on September 11, 2018, according to which a USCIS immigration officer can deny an immigration application or petition filed with …
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Even legal immigrants can be deported from the U.S., according to a new policy adopted by the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS). When people file applications with the USCIS to receive immigration benefits, they will have to file their applications with certain supporting documents. They can find the list of those documents on …
Over 90 immigration activists gathered at the Pentacrest in Iowa City on Saturday afternoon to call for immigration rights and express their concern about the current implementation of US immigration policy. Natalia Espina, who helped to arrange the event, is the co-founder of the organization known as the Eastern Iowa Community Bond Project. It helps …
On Sunday, a new group of immigrants set off from El Salvador toward the US, in the wake of thousands of other immigrants from Central American nations who have taken similar journeys to try to escape from violence and poverty over the last few weeks. A group consisting of over 300 immigrants from El Salvador …
