Applicants who have ever tried to reach USCIS about your immigration case have likely encountered the USCIS National Customer Service Center (NCSC) — the primary point of contact for applicants, petitioners, and attorneys. Understanding how the NCSC works, what it can [...]
The federal government has been shut down as of October 1, 2025. We are providing details on the immigration-related services that are impacted by the shutdown. The biggest impact for employment-immigration matters is disruption in DOL services via FLAG [...]
When submitting any application, petition, or request to U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), the requestor’s signature is crucial. A valid signature confirms that the applicant or petitioner knows, has reviewed, and approves the document’s content, [...]
On March 12, 2025, the Department of Homeland Security published an Interim Final Rule (IFR) titled “Alien Registration Form and Evidence of Registration.” Under the new rule, starting April 11, 2025, non-U.S. citizens staying in [...]
Most non-U.S. citizens are required to report a change of their residential address within 10 days of moving within the U.S. or its territories. This requirement becomes even more important when there is an application pending with USCIS. The change of address notification is done by either USCIS online account or by submitting (on paper!) [...]
Update: March 2024. Starting FY2025 H-1B cap season, USCIS will switch to beneficiary-centric selection process which will count each beneficiary only once for registration selection purposes. See more details about the new rule. Update: March 2022. Starting FY2023 H-1B cap season, USCIS requires H-1B registrant employers to make an additional attestation which reads, I further [...]
Like almost all aspects of life during COVID, USCIS operations have been impacted significantly and we have been seeing extreme delays especially with respect to ASC biometrics processing and, by extension, cases which require biometrics to be completed before adjudication. After a November 19, 2020 update in which USCIS has indicated that the ASC biometrics [...]
USCIS has just made an announcement to its staff and external stakeholders that the administrative staff furlough which was scheduled to begin on August 30, 2020 has been cancelled and the current USCIS staffing levels would remain unchanged. Cost Cutting Measures Means Fewer Contractors and Processing Delays According to USCIS's Deputy Director of Policy, the [...]
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service ("USCIS") requires any non-English language document submitted as evidence or in support of an application or petition to be accompanied by a certified English translation which has to meet certain specific requirements. Foreign Language Translation Requirements According to the Code of Federal Regulations, 8 CFR 103.2(b)(3), Any document containing foreign [...]
The two weeks since the release of the July 2019 Visa Bulletin have created much confusion with in the FB-2A category and especially with respect to which dates would USCIS use in determining who can [...]
