Nelson A. Castillo Several of the customer service tools on the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) website will be unavailable today, Thursday, August 10, 2017. USCIS will again be performing maintenance work on its electronic system. On this occasion, the service interruption will be from 9:00 p.m. ... Read more
In my recent Consulta Migratoria® column, I answer a concerned reader's question about her son's case following the sentencing and closing of a fake lawyer's office. Each case is different and the answers vary depending on each person's immigration history. Here is a general answer to her questions. Please ... Read more
Updated information for the August 2017 Visa Bulletin is now available. The new tables include the consular filing dates and final visa issuance action. If you would like to view the Visa Bulletin tables on Filing for Adjustment of Status (applications for a visa to ... Read more
Good news for people with Temporary Protected Status living in Alaska, Arizona, California, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, Oregon and Washington. The federal government did not appeal a Ninth Circuit Federal Court of Appeals ruling that will allow certain people with TPS, including Salvadorans, Nicaraguans and Hondurans who entered the U.S. illegally, to ... Read more
Several of the customer service tools on the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) website will be unavailable today, Thursday, July 20, 2017. USCIS will again be performing maintenance work on its electronic system. On this occasion, the service interruption will be from 9:00 p.m. ... Read more
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced today that it will authorize the issuance of an additional 15,000 H-2B visas for fiscal year 2017 to prevent U.S. businesses from suffering "irreparable harm" because they have been unable to secure temporary workers. The annual cap of 66,000 H-2B visas was exhausted in March of this year, but ... Read more
Updated information for the July 2017 Affirmative Asylum Interview Scheduling Bulletin is now available. The new tables detail the processing dates for affirmative asylum applications filed directly with U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS). The processing times in this ... Read more
The Superior Court of the State of California took possession of the office of Eddie Bonilla, who falsely posed as an attorney, to retrieve the files of approximately 2,000 clients who paid him for legal advice, even though he operated his business without authorization. This action was taken under an interim court order to protect clients, after ... Read more
In a unanimous decision, the U.S. Supreme Court today authorized partial implementation of President Trump's immigration veto, overturning lower court orders that blocked the executive order. The ruling, detailed in a 16-page brief, allows the government to ban for 90 days the entry of immigrants from six ... Read more
Ten months after a jury found Rose Sanchez-Cañete guilty of defrauding immigrants, the judge in the case finally handed down his sentence. The delay was due to legal maneuvering by Sanchez-Cañete's defense team, which successfully had her sentence postponed five times. Judge Michael F. Devine imposed a sentence of 24 months ... Read more
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