Public Charge Rule back On – For Now On November 3rd. 2020 we informed you that there was a News Update that The government CANNOT apply the new public charge rules anywhere in the United States or abroad because on November 2, 2020, a federal district court vacated the new Department of Homeland Security (DHS) …
Trump and Biden’s Immigration Policies The year 2020 has been like no other in the United States. Multiple natural disasters, more protests for social justice than in previous years on racism and police topics, Immigration Policies, and a pandemic causing mass unemployment and hundreds of thousands of deaths. Americans can travel to fewer places than …
Biden plans on swiftly rolling back some Trump Administration Policies President-elect Joe Biden is reportedly working on a group of executive orders that would reverse several controversial Trump administration policies once he takes office on January 20. Immigration policy would be the most dramatic and immediate reversal. According to a Washington Post report, Biden plans to take …
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Premium Processing Fee Increase Effective Oct. 19, 2020 U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) today announced it will increase fees for premium processing, effective Oct. 19, as required by the Continuing Appropriations Act, 2021 and Other Extensions Act, Pub. L. No. 116-159, signed into law on Oct. 1. The USCIS premium processing service allows petitioners to pay an …
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Developments that may Affect You or Your Employees’ Ability to File for Green Cards This post is to alert you of new developments that may affect you or your employees’ ability to file for green cards. It requires your immediate attention and action. The U.S. State Department has released the Visa Bulletin for October …
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USCIS Finalizes Significant Filing Fee Increases Starting October 2, 2020, Fee increases will go way up for U.S. Citizenship, Green Card & many more applications. As we informed on our August 3, 2020, post, many of the applications postmarked on or after October 2, 2020, will have substantially higher fees than before. Delaying your applications …
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The Cost of Adjusting Your U.S. Immigration Status Will Increase Drastically, And Asylum is No Longer Free. The Trump administration announced on Friday an excessive increase in fees for some of the most common immigration procedures, including an 81% increase in the cost of U.S. citizenship for naturalization. It will also now charge asylum-seekers, which …
Trump Wants to Bar Undocumented Immigrants Out of the 2020 Census President Donald Trump wants to bar undocumented immigrants from being counted in the 2020 census. That’s not all he’s doing on immigration in 2020. In recent months, Trump has moved to reduce the number of foreign workers in the U.S., end a program that …
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Presidential Proclamation Suspending the Entry of Certain Nonimmigrants into the United States – What You Should Know Here’s What We Know On June 22, 2020, President Trump issued Presidential Proclamation 10052, which suspended the entry of foreign nationals on certain employment-based nonimmigrant visas into the United States as of June 24, 2020, at 12:01 am …
Health Insurance for Green Card Applicants Over the past year, the Trump administration has introduced new rules and financial requirements that make it more difficult for many to immigrate to the United States. These tighter restrictions generally affect all family-based applicants. Many of the new requirements revolve around the premise that immigrants not be dependent …
