Since the beginning of the year, the air has been buzzing with prospects of comprehensive immigration reform. Remember, there are no changes in the law yet, but things seem to be moving along in Congress, at least on the Senate side. Here is the late…
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USCIS has recently implemented a new immigrant visa fee of $165, to be paid by people who are entering the U.S. 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 t…
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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…
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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…
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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 C…
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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 ca…
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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 soo…
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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 fi…
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USCIS has just released a press release announcing that they already conducted the lottery on April 7th for both the U.S. master’s and regular cap cases. They also announced that they received approximately 124,000 H-1B petitions for the cap fo…
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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 U.S. master’s cap. April 5th was the last day USCIS would accept an H-1B cap petition for FY2…
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