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Do you know how many photographs should be included in an application to adjust status? Is it two? or four? six? Or none? What happens if you provide the incorrect number? Often, immigration applicants, whether seeking family immigration or employment immigration, believe that a few dollars can be saved if they submit a petition without … Continue reading “How Many Photographs Are Included In An Adjustment of Status Application?” The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service (USCIS) recently announced that it has launched a website geared towards providing potential immigrant entrepreneurs with a general overview The website, Entrepreneur Pathways, does a good job describing the general process for obtaining an employment-authorizing visa, and gives a general list of the visas possibly capable of use by … Continue reading “USCIS Introduces Entrepreneur Pathways Website” The Department of Homeland Security recently announced how many employment-based immigrants became lawful permanent residents in 2011. The chart below breaks down the immigrants into their priority classification (e.g. first through five priority). Additionally, the chart provides historical statistics for each of the five priority classifications for the last ten years. Of note is the … Continue reading “Employment-Based Immigrant Statistics 2002-2011” Yesterday, New York City Mayor Bloomberg announced that the joint team of Cornell University and Technion – Israeli Institute of Technology had won the city’s competition to develop a world-class technological institute on Roosevelt Island. It is hoped that it will be a catalyst to creating new and innovative companies in the New York City … Continue reading “Cornell, Technion, and New York City Get It, Will the U.S. Government?” Have you ever wondered what the immigration abbreviations meant on your immigration visa? The following is meant to provide an answer to at least some of the abbreviations. If you are unsure what your abbreviations mean, contact a NYC immigration lawyer for assistance. IMMIGRANTS Immediate Relatives Symbol Class Section of Law IR1 Spouse of U.S. … A couple nights ago ABC News ran a report about how the creator of CruiseWise.com was denied a visa even though his company had been named one of the “20 Hot Silicon Valley Startups You Need to Watch,” and had hired nine Americans (and expected to hire many more in the near future). The reason … Continue reading “USCIS Quickly Changes Course When ABC News Gets Involved” The Department of Labor (DOL) has updated it’s Foreign Labor Certification Data Center’s Online Wage Library. The Online Wage Library is used in many employment-based immigration cases, including the H-1b visa. The wage library provides average salaries for workers throughout the country, and is broken down by metropolitan area, employment position, and experience . If … Continue reading “DOL Updates Foreign Labor Certification’s Online Wage Library” The USCIS has recently announced that all I-140 permanent residency petitions that are not premium processed will need to be submitted to the USCIS’s Dallas Lockbox. The I-140 petition is used for immigrants who seek to gain permanent residency through employment, including EB-1, EB-2, and EB-3 visa applicants. The new address is: USCIS Dallas Lockbox … Continue reading “Permanent Residency Worker Petitions Filed at New Address” Immigration attorney Chris Gafner has published an immigration law article entitled Attracting the Best and Brightest: A Critique Of The Current Immigration System. Published in the Fordham Urban Law Journal,the article provides an in-depth analysis of the current U.S. immigration system for attracting the best and brightest immigrants to the United States. The article also … Comprehensive Immigration Reform at the Federal Level seems to be stalled. Neither party has seriously pushed for comprehensive immigration reform in many years. What little debate about immigration that there is focuses on one tiny part of the immigration system. Out of this void at the Federal level, many local politicians and business leaders have … Continue reading “List of Political and Business Leaders Seeking Immigration Reform Keeps Growing” The USCIS has announced that it will no longer accept the concurrent filing of permanent residency religious visas (“EB-4 Visa” ) with an application for adjustment of status. Since 2009, the USCIS has allowed immigrants applying for the EB-4 visa to file a concurrent adjustment of status application along with a request for employment authorization … Last week, the 9th Circuit came down with a ruling that should have a great impact on how the USCIS adjudicates EB-1-1 Extraordinary Abilities petitions. The EB 1-1 (also known as EB 1-a) is used by highly successful foreign nationals to gain lawful permanent residency in the United States. The EB 1-1 visa requires an … Continue reading “9th Circuit Rebuffs USCIS Adjudication of EB-1 Extraordinary Abilities Petitions” The USCIS has recently announced that a new I-485 form has been published and that all new applicants will need to use the form beginning before March 29. Additionally, the USCIS has announced a change in the location that I-485s are filed. The change in location is meant to facilitate a quicker means by which … Continue reading “New I-485 Form and Location Effective March 29” H-1B Numbers Closing In On Annual Cap The United States Citizenship and Immigration Service (USCIS) has announced that H-1B filings for the fiscal year are increasing and that only a tad over 10,000 H-1B visa slots remain available for the current fiscal year. The annual cap is 65,000 for normal H-1B visas. H-1B visa filings … |
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