This week ( JUNE 26, 2018) , the Supreme Court upheld the third, reengineered version of President Trump’s travel and entry ban by a vote of 5 to 4. .The court dismissed the anti-Muslim statements of President Trump and other administration officials when evaluating the legality of the ban. President Trump signed Executive Order (EO)…

President Donald Trump signed an executive order Wednesday ending the process of separating children from families after they are detained crossing the U.S. border illegally. Until Wednesday, the federal government repeatedly argued the only way to end the practice was for Congress to pass new legislation. Trump also wrongly claimed prior to today that his…

USCIS announced that as of 6/11/18, petitioners who file Form I-751, Petition to Remove Conditions on Residence, or Form I-829, Petition by Entrepreneur to Remove Conditions on Permanent Resident Status, will receive a Form I-797 receipt notice that can be used as evidence of continued status for 18 months past the expiration date on their Form I-551,…

By memorandum dated May 10, 2018, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services announced a change, effective August 9, 2018, in the way it will calculate periods of unlawful presence in the United States for students and exchange visitors who remain beyond completion of their academic/training program. Under the new policy the date on which a person…

On May 31, 2018 the Secretary of Homeland Security, in consultation with the Secretary of Labor, has decided to authorize the issuance of up to an additional 15,000 H-2B through the end of Fiscal Year (FY) 2018. This numerical limitation increase is based on a time-limited statutory authority and does not affect the H–2B program…

WASHINGTON – U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced on May 25, 2018 that Form N-565, Application for Replacement of Naturalization/Citizenship Document, and Form N-336, Request for a Hearing on a Decision in Naturalization Proceedings (Under Section 336 of the INA), can be filed online. Applicants will be able to complete Forms N-565 and N-336…

Congress has now approved a bill that would fund the government through September to the tune of $1.3 trillion and provides for massive funding increases for federal immigration authorities. The omnibus funding bill notably includes a provision for underwriting a partial southern border wall but leaves out a fix for Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals….

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday, February 26, 2018, denied the Trump administration’s request to review a California federal court’s order that temporarily paused the federal government’s move to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. By declining to take up the government’s appeal of a district court’s DACA ruling the U.S. Supreme…

If you are applying for a U.S. passport and you owe taxes to the IRS you may want to read the following guidance. The following is an excerpt from IRS Notice 2018-01, which was issued in the January 16, 2018 Internal Revenue Bulletin (IRS 2018-03) and includes statutory provisions from the December 2015 FAST Act:…

On Saturday, Jan. 13, 2018, USCIS posted instructions in the USCIS website regarding the processing of DACA applications in light of a recent federal court order. USCIS has resumed accepting requests to renew a grant of deferred action under DACA.  The DACA policy will be operated on the terms in place before it was rescinded…