List of Top News Stories from the last two weeks related to DACA: Yuba Net (yubanet.com), 5/1/17: Undocumented youth who are enrolled in or eligible for DACA pay roughly $2 billion each year in state and local taxes. DACA Beneficiaries Pay Billions in Taxes Denver Channel 7 (thedenverchannel.com),…
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Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) – Weekly List of Top News Stories!
List of Top News Stories from the last two weeks related to DACA: Daily Trojan (DailyTrojan.com), 4/26/17: The story of two DACA and California Dream Act recipients who are college students at USC, but still fear being deported! DREAMers at USC feel uncertainty, fear deportation North Jersey (northjersey.com),…
Scam Alert – DHS OIG Hotline Telephone Number Used in Scam to Obtain Personal Information
On Wednesday, April 19, 2017, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Office of Inspector General (OIG) issued a fraud alert! DHS OIG is warning the public that the scam is using their DHS OIG hotline number. These scammers identify themselves as U.S. Immigration employees and have altered their caller…
Reminder – USCIS Immigration Filing Fees to Increase
USCIS has raised its immigration filing fees effective December 23, 2016. Applications and petitions postmarked or filed on or after December 23, 2016, must include these new fees. Please note that USCIS will reject your submission if the fees are not correct! New USCIS’ fees effective December 23, 2016 FORM…
Employment Authorization Documents (EADs) Issued by the Potomac Service Center (PSC) may need to be replaced!!
Starting on April 17th, the Potomac Service Center (PSC) will begin handling corrections to Employment Authorization Documents (EADs) originally issued by PSC which included incorrect information due to USCIS error. Previously USCIS customers were instructed to send their incorrect EAD’s issued by the PSC to the Nebraska Service Center (NSC)…
Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) – Weekly List of Top News Stories!
List of Top News Stories from the last two weeks related to DACA: Arizona Daily Sun (AZDailySun.com), 3/29/17: Arizona’s Attorney General Mark Brnovich is making a final effort to let Arizona’s Governor Doug Ducey deny driver’s licenses to DACA recipients (Dreamers). AG hopes to deny licenses to DACA recipients…
Delay in NSC Processing of H-4/EAD Applications Filed with Premium Processing H-1Bs
The Nebraska Service Center (NSC) delaying adjudication of H-4 related I-539 (Application to Extend/Change Nonimmigrant Status) applications and I-765 (Application for Employment Authorization) applications for H-4 Employment Authorization Documents (EADs) that are filed concurrently with H1B petitions for premium processing. While there is no premium processing available for H-4…
Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) – Weekly List of Top News Stories!
List of Top News Stories from the last two weeks related to DACA: Rewire. News, 3/16/17: Daniel Ramirez Medina, a DACA recipient who came to the United States at age 7, was swept up in President Trump’s nationwide immigration raids. Seattle DACA Recipient Remains in Detention Center nationalreview.com,…
Reminder – USCIS Immigration Filing Fees to Increase
USCIS has raised its immigration filing fees effective December 23, 2016. Applications and petitions postmarked or filed on or after December 23, 2016, must include these new fees. Please note that USCIS will reject your submission if the fees are not correct! New USCIS’ fees effective December 23, 2016 FORM…
President Trump’s Revised Travel Ban – Notes from News Conference 3/6/17
These are my notes from the Monday, March 6th mid-day News Conference about, “Executive Order Protecting The Nation From Foreign Terrorist Entry Into The United States”, President Trump’s Revised Travel Ban. The News Conference was given by three of President Trump’s Cabinet Members: Secretary of State, Rex Tillerson, Attorney General,…