President Barack Obama's administration deported 409,849 people during fiscal year 2012 (October 2011 - September 2012), almost 13,000 more than the previous year. This, despite announcing in mid-2011 that it would suspend the deportation of 300,000 undocumented immigrants in the process of being removed from the country while they conducted an evaluation of each ... Read more
Effective February 1, 2013, USCIS will charge a new fee of $$165 for processing permanent resident visas filed abroad. According to USCIS, the new "immigrant fee" is to recoup the costs of processing immigrant visas after ... Read more
Today, December 18, is International Migrants Day. The General Assembly of the United Nations (UN) established this commemorative day in 2000, in recognition of the large number of people around the world who leave their countries due to poverty, war or human rights violations. Currently, it is estimated that ... Read more
More than 360,000 requests for deferred action have been submitted since USCIS opened the deadline to initiate the process. According to figures provided today by the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), this government agency has received a total of 367,903 requests between August 15 and December 13, 2012. Of that number, USCIS has ... Read more
More than 300,000 requests for deferred action have been submitted since the USCIS opened the deadline to initiate the process. According to figures provided Friday by the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), this government agency has received a total of 308,935 requests between August 15 and November 15, 2012. Of that figure, the ... Read more
Last Saturday was the last day to register for the visa lottery for fiscal year 2014. The registration period for Diversity Visas was held this year from October 2 to November 3, 2012. Lottery winners will only be able to find out if they won on May 1, 2012, and will be able to find out if they won ... Read more
Agents from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) arrested a Tijuana man allegedly posing as an immigration attorney. Alberto Rodrigo Garcia, 50, of Tijuana, Mexico, was arrested yesterday at the Otay Mesa port of entry ... Read more
They started slow, but it appears that the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has made progress in processing deferred action cases. According to information released today by USCIS, 179,794 requests for deferred action have been received. A total of 4,591 cases have been approved and another 6,416 are under review. This is a large increase, as ... Read more
This week in my La Opinión column I answer a reader's question about a very important issue for the immigrant community: the misuse of immigration consultants for legal advice. I went to an immigration consultant in Los Angeles who promised to help me fix my papers. I paid him thousands of dollars but ... Read more
In an unprecedented decision, Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano issued an order to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) that it must include same-sex couples in a long-term relationship within the definition of familial relationship. In a letter to members of Congress, Napolitano told them ... Read more
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