| 01/27/12 |
The Administrative Appeals Office has released its latest processing times report for January 1, 2012. |
| 1/19/12 |
According to a New York Times article, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security has completed its pilot project to review pending immigration cases at the Denver Immigration Court for prosecutorial discretion. It has determined that about 1,000 of the 7,000 cases should be administratively closed under the new policy. |
| 1/10/12 |
The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services has extended Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for eligible nationals of El Salvador for an additional 18 months, beginning March 10, 2012, and ending September 9, 2013. Re-registration applications must be submitted between January 9, 2012 and March 12, 2012. Current employment authorization documents bearing a March 9, 2012 expiration date will be automatically extended for an additional 6 months through September 9, 2012. |
| 1/07/12 |
The U.S. Department of State has issued its Visa Bulletin for February 2012 which reflects visa availability for certain family-based and employment-based immigrant petitions. |
| 01/06/12 |
The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services is proposing to change its procedure for the processing of waiver applications for immigrants who must leave the United States to obtain green cards overseas. Under the proposal, immigrants will be able to obtain a provisional approval of the waiver application prior to leaving the United States, but only if the sole basis for inadmissibility is unlawful presence in the United States, and if the immigrant is the "immediate relative" of a U.S. citizen; immigrants who are subject to a 10-year bar for other grounds of inadmissibility will be unable to benefit from this new procedure. An advance copy of USCIS' Notice of Intent regarding this new procedure will be published in the Federal Register on Monday, 1/09/12. The final rule will be published sometime later this year. Additional information is available on the USCIS website. |
| 01/06/12 |
The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court has ruled that the Commonwealth of Massachusetts cannot prevent tens of thousands of legal immigrants from enrolling in Commonwealth Care, the state's subsidized health care program. |
| 01/01/12 |
Happy New Year from Dyson Law, P.C.! |
