New York City Immigration Law Blog
Premium Processing: USCIS Resumes Premium Processing for Certain Petitions
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services announced this week that it will resume premium processing for Form I-129, Petition for a Nonimmigrant Worker and Form I-140, Immigrant Petition for Alien Workers, in phases over the month of June. Hence Employers have to make...
USCIS Employees to Face Furloughs, Without Emergency Funds
US Citizenship and Immigration Services, the federal agency responsible for visa and asylum processing, is expected to furlough part of its workforce this summer if Congress doesn't provide emergency funding to sustain operations during the coronavirus pandemic....
US Doctors On H1B Allowed To Practice Telemedicine
In the ongoing battle against coronavirus, United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has given permission for H1B visa holding doctors to practice telemedicine. The decision comes amid surging demand for healthcare professionals during the pandemic...
USCIS ITServe Settlement Overturns 10 Years of H1B Policies
The United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) lost an important case which is a win for H-1B employers on March 10th, 2020 that establishes paramount H1B visa related policy memos created by the USCIS in the last few years. The USCIS reached an...
USCIS Seeks Bailout, Plans To Charge More For Visa Applications
US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) is seeking a $1.2 billion bailout from Congress as a result of the loss in revenue due to a decline in immigration cases caused by the coronavirus pandemic. Unlike other federal agencies, USCIS receives almost no...
U.S. Senators Urge Trump To Temporarily Suspend H-1B, Other Guest Workers Visas
On May 7, 2020, four top Republican senators urged U.S. President Donald Trump to extend the April 22, 2020 immigration proclamation to suspend all-new guest worker visas for 60 days and certain categories of new guest worker visas, including H-1B, for at least a year...