USCIS has recently implemented a new immigrant visa fee of $165, to be paid by people who are entering the US on an immigrant visa. An immigrant visa means that you are applying to enter the United States as a permanent resident, rather than on a temporary basis. USCIS instructs that you should pay the [...]
As we posted earlier this month, Customs and Border Protection is in the process of automating the I-94 process. Some other government agencies use the I-94 to verify a foreign national’s immigration status before granting benefits such as a driver’s license or social security number. These agencies may not be familiar with the new I-94, [...]
CBP has recently announced the automation of the Form I-94 Arrival/Departure Record, for all sea and air arrivals. The rule is now effective, and is being phased in over a four week period starting April 30th, 2013. Why is This Happening? CBP has two reasons for this automation. First, the automation will provide a central, [...]
Breaking News: Some Family-Based Adjustment of Status Interviews to Be Waived USCIS announced in October 2012 that it would reallocate some of its workload, and shift cases from the four service centers to a field office or to the National Benefits Center. As a result of this change, some family-based cases have been transferred [...]
We continue to receive H-1B receipts for cap cases filed this April. If you have filed an H-1B petition subject to the H-1B cap and don’t have a receipt notice yet, don’t give up hope yet! We have also started to receive the first H-1B cap approval notices and are notifying clients as they arrive.
Just today, we have started to receive H-1B receipt notices for the recently filed H-1B cap cases. Please note that if we received the receipt for your case, we have already notified you and/or your employer. We will continue to notify clients as soon as the receipts come in as we know you are anxious [...]
The Sumner Immigration Law team has heard a few reports from other immigration attorneys that they have received H-1B premium processing receipts. Sumner immigration Law did not file many cases via premium processing and therefore we cannot attest first-hand to this. We understand through informal channel that USCIS may start issuing receipt notices this week [...]
USCIS has just released a press release announcing that they already conducted the lottery on April 7th for both the US master’s and regular cap cases. They also announced that they received approximately 124,000 H-1B petitions for the cap for FY 2014 (for US master’s and regular together). For Sumner Immigration Law clients: Please [...]
USCIS announced late on Friday, April 5th that it has received more than 65,000 petitions for the H-1B “regular” cap and more than 20,000 for the H-1B US master’s cap. April 5th was the last day USCIS would accept an H-1B cap petition for FY2014. Since USCIS received more petitions than are available in [...]
As you may know, the past few weeks the Sumner Immigration Law team has been hard at work preparing cap-subject H-1B petitions for filing on Friday, March 29th for delivery to USCIS on Monday, April 1. We are huge proponents of the power of positive thinking and positive energy, for the good of our clients [...]
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