Processing Time reports for all of the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service (USCIS) Service Centers were released on October 14, 2010 with processing dates as of August 31, 2010. If you filed a petition with one of the Service Centers, please review the links below to determine the applicable processing…
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The Department of State has released its latest Visa Bulletin. Click here to view the November 2010 Visa Bulletin. The November 2010 Visa Bulletin still shows employment based third preference (EB-3) visas as oversubscribed while the employment based second preference (EB-2) is current for all areas of chargeability except for…
The United States Citizenship and Immigration Service (USCIS) has updated the count of H-1B petitions received and counted towards the 65,000 cap. As of October 8, 2010, 41,900 H-1B Regular CAP subject non-immigrant visa petitions have been filed with the USCIS towards the 65,000 cap. As of October 8, 2010,…
Justin Michael Martin of Kentucky pleaded guilty to commit marriage fraud and is facing a possible sentence of 10 years with $500,000 in fines. Martin was set up by Michael Chanthou Chin to travel to Cambodia and marry Yota Em, a Cambodian national. He agreed to marry Yota so she…
Each year the USCIS naturalizes approximately 680,000 citizens and so far over 6.8 million citizens have been naturalized into the United States. This fiscal year alone the US has already naturalized 495,232 people. To apply for naturalization an individual must fill out Form N-400 (Application for Naturalization) and fulfill the…
Gilberto Jordan was found guilty by Florida’s U.S. District Court for illegally obtaining his U.S. citizenship and human rights violations for his participation in the massacre at Dos Erres, Guatemala. Jordan was a part of the Guatemalan special forces patrol who raided Dos Erres in 1982 looking for stolen rifles…
MVP “Q & A Forum” – This Friday, October 15th, 2010 We wanted to find a new way to engage our reader base. Every other Friday, we will post the ten (10) best/most frequently asked questions received during the week from our h1bvisalawyerblog, Facebook, and Twitter readers. We will answer…
On September 23, 2010 The U.S. Citizen and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced a final rule to adjust fees for immigration applications and petitions effective November 23. Due to USCIS’s large differential between costs and expected revenue, the final rule is necessary to bridge this gap. It will increase overall cost…
After declining to hand over documents to investigators detailing recent forceful tactics against illegal immigrants to examine whether they are a violation of civil rights, Sheriff Joe Arpaio of Arizona’s Maricopa County was sued by the Justice Department. This lawsuit is the third filed by the Justice Department in relation…