This week in my column "Consulta Migratoria" in LaOpinion.com I explain what the provisional waiver of the punishment law is and how the application process works. Here is the column: The process to apply for the Provisional Unlawful Presence Waiver will go into effect on March 4, 2013. ... Read more
More than 438,372 requests for deferred action have been submitted since the USCIS opened the deadline to initiate the process. According to figures provided by the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), this government agency has received a total of 438,372 requests between August 15 and February 14, 2013. Of that figure, the USCIS ... Read more
More than 407,899 requests for deferred action have been submitted since USCIS opened the deadline to initiate the process. According to figures provided yesterday by the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), this government agency has received a total of 407,899 requests between August 15 and January 17, 2013. Of that figure, the USCIS has ... Read more
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced that effective January 12, 2013, toll-free telephone assistance service hours have been extended to include Saturdays. The National Customer Service Center (NCSC) hours of operation will now be Monday through Friday from 8 a.m. to ... Read more
This morning I reported that the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) finally released the final regulations to implement the modification of the process for obtaining a waiver under the "punishment law". Tomorrow it will be officially published in the Federal Register, and the new procedures will go into effect on March 4 ... Read more
Today the U.S. Department of Homeland Security announced final regulations to modify the process for obtaining a waiver under the "law of punishment". This change will help thousands of U.S. citizens who have undocumented immediate family members - parents, spouses and unmarried children under the age of 21 - when they apply for residency ... 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
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
As of today, December 5, 2012, applicants from Mexico can no longer file Form I-601, Application for Waiver of Grounds of Inadmissibility, at the local U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) office in Ciudad Juarez. They are also unable to file associated forms ... 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
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