The U.S. State Department has just released the October 2022 Visa Bulletin which is the first Visa Bulletin for the new fiscal year. The headline in the upcoming month’s Visa Bulletin is [...]
On January 21, 2022, USCIS announced a revised procedure regarding the process of transferring the underlying basis of a Form I-485 to a different employment-based I-140 preference category (a process often called “interfiling”). If an I-485 applicant has [...]
The U.S. State Department has just released the June 2021 Visa Bulletin which is the ninth Visa Bulletin for the fiscal year. The headline in the upcoming month’s Visa Bulletin is the continuing significant forward movement for EB-2 and [...]
With many applicants filing (or having filed) adjustment of status (I-485) applications, especially in the EB-2 and EB-3 India and China categories, and due to the fact that there are many I-485 [...]
The U.S. State Department has just released the April 2018 Visa Bulletin which is the seventh Visa Bulletin for the FY2018 fiscal year. The headline in the upcoming month’s Visa Bulletin is major [...]
The U.S. State Department has just released the October 2017 Visa Bulletin which is the first Visa Bulletin for the FY2018 fiscal year. The headline in the upcoming month’s Visa Bulletin is fact [...]
Earlier this year USCIS introduced a new Form I-485 Supplement J which is being used in connection with filings of new I-485 applications to adjust status or for porting of existing and pending I-485 applications to a new employer or a new job. The purpose of I-485 Supplement J is to provide a confirmation [...]
The Department of Homeland Security (“DHS”) has just released the final text (also copy of Federal Register version) of the rule seeking to improve certain aspects of the employment-based immigration system. The new rule [...]
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service (“USCIS”) has just announced that for the month of October 2016 they will honor and accept I-485 Adjustment of Status applications based on the Filing Dates (and not only on the Final [...]
Many of our clients and readers are already aware of the move by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service (“USCIS”) to issue what are hundreds, or perhaps even thousands, of very similar, if not identical, requests for evidence (“RFE”) on pending [...]
