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Developments that may Affect You or Your Employees’ Ability to File for Green Cards

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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 2020, […]

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USCIS Finalizes Significant Filing Fee Increases

Leave a Comment / Immigration, Immigration policies, Trump / Raquel Michelena

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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H-1B VISA DENIALS CONTINUE TO INCREASE FOR COMPANIES

Leave a Comment / Covid-19, H-1B visa, Immigration, Trump / Raquel Michelena

H-1B VISA DENIALS CONTINUE TO INCREASE FOR COMPANIES H-1B VISA DENIALS CONTINUE TO INCREASE FOR COMPANIES U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) continues H-1B visa denials, including for high-skilled foreign nationals sponsored by many of the best companies in the world, according to a new analysis. The overall trend for businesses under the Trump administration

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Tech Giants Back Legal Challenge to Trump’s Foreign Workers Ban

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Tech Giants Back Legal Challenge to Trump’s Foreign Workers Ban Top U.S. tech firms, including Amazon.com Inc and Facebook Inc, filed a legal brief on Monday, backing a challenge to U.S. President Donald Trump’s temporary ban on the entry of certain foreign workers to preserve jobs for Americans during the coronavirus pandemic. In brief, filed

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Judge Issues Two Nationwide Injunctions Blocking “Public Charge” Immigration Rules Amid COVID-19 Pandemic

Leave a Comment / Covid-19, Immigration, Immigration health insurance, Public charge, Trump / Raquel Michelena

Judge Issues Two Nationwide Injunctions Blocking “Public Charge” Immigration Rules Amid COVID-19 Pandemic A Manhattan federal court issued two nationwide injunctions temporarily blocking the Trump administration’s “public charge” rules. An injunction issued against the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) prevents DHS from enforcing, applying, implementing, or treating as effective the “public charge” rule for

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The Cost of Adjusting Your U.S. Immigration Status Will Increase Drastically, And Asylum is No Longer Free.

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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

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A judge ordered the US to accept new DACA applications. It is still unclear if the Trump administration will.

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A judge ordered the US to accept new DACA applications. It is still unclear if the Trump administration will. On June 18, 2020, the U.S. Supreme Court sided with DACA recipients ruling that how the Trump administration rescinded the DACA program in 2017 was unlawful. The decision is a massive victory for immigrant communities and

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Trump Wants to Bar Undocumented Immigrants Out of the 2020 Census

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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

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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

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Trump administration drops rules to strip visa from forgien

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Trump Administration Drops Rule to Strip Visa’s from foreign students in online-only classes. WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump’s administration agreed Tuesday to rescind its controversial rule barring foreign students from living in the USA while taking fall classes online, a sharp reversal after the White House faced a slew of lawsuits challenging the policy. A

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