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Topics: Deferred Action (DACA) Updates, Immigration Reform Updates, Immigration Blog
A technical glitch has interfered with the issuing of U.S. travel visas.
Topics: Immigration Reform Updates, Work-Based Visas, Personal and Family Visas
Topics: Immigration Reform Updates, Work-Based Visas, Personal and Family Visas
Topics: Immigration Reform Updates, Work-Based Visas, Personal and Family Visas
After getting married on a K-1 fiance visa you are eligible to petition for a Green Card.
Topics: Immigration Reform Updates, Personal and Family Visas
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Topics: Immigration Reform Updates
In what could be a game-changing precedent, the California Supreme Court has just ruled that undocumented immigrant Sergio Garcia must be allowed to practice law in the state.
Topics: Immigration Reform Updates, Personal and Family Visas, Immigration Blog
In case you weren't keeping up with U.S. immigration news this week, here were the big topics:
Throughout 2013 we have seen a surge in immigrants requesting special visas to protect them from threats within their home country as well as within the U.S. Last week, several House Republicans voiced their concerns about the exponential growth of asylum requests from undocumented immigrants. From 2012 to 2013, requests for asylum citing “credible fear” of harm in returning to their home country nearly tripled. One lawmaker went so far as to ask, "The world is not twice as dangerous as it was in 2012, so what explains the spike?"
Topics: Immigration Reform Updates, Personal and Family Visas, Immigration Blog
This afternoon, the U.S. Supreme Court is scheduled to hear the case of thousands of potential young immigrants and their U.S. family members in the class action lawsuit Mayorkas v. Cuellar de Osorio. The Supreme Court will then determine the true interpretation of The Child Status Protection Act (CSPA) and whether or not it should accommodate young immigrants who age out of the U.S. visa process because of the broken U.S. immigration system and its ridiculously long visa backlog.
Topics: Immigration Reform Updates, Personal and Family Visas, Immigration Blog
