Updated 8/19/2020Disclaimer: Any foreign national considering international travel should have an attorney review the particular circumstances of their case as there are currently several “bans” in effect. H-1B Cap:On August 14, 2020, USCIS ran a second lottery on...
On July 14, 2020, President Trump issued Executive Order (EO 13936) that ends the special treatment of Hong Kong as a separate foreign state from China. The immigration impact to Hong Kong nationals is significant. For the permanent residence (i.e. green card)...
Updated 7/29/2020Disclaimer: Any foreign national considering international travel should have an attorney review the particular circumstances of their case as there are currently several “bans” in effect. Presidential Proclamations: As detailed in our continually...
Presidential Proclamation: As noted in our blog post, the April 22, 2020 Presidential Proclamation regarding immigration affects only consular processing immigrant visa cases, with certain exceptions. Nonimmigrant visas and statuses are unaffected; PERM, I-140,...
Updated May 29, 2020Presidential Proclamation: As noted in our blog post on April 22, the new Presidential Proclamation regarding immigration affects only consular processing immigrant visa cases, with certain exceptions. Nonimmigrant visas and statuses are...
On April 22, 2020, President Trump issued a Presidential Proclamation preventing entry to the U.S. by new immigrants by suspending the issuance of immigrant visas (green cards). This Proclamation does not suspend any existing visas or permanent residency applications...
As previously posted, on Monday, January 27, 2020, the U.S. Supreme Court granted the administration’s request for a stay of the nationwide injunction against the administration’s public charge rule, which cleared a path for the Department of Homeland Security (“DHS”) to implement the public charge rule within the United States starting on February 24, 2020.
The new rule drastically changes the standard by which a foreign national is determined to be “likely at any time to become a public charge” (and consequently inadmissible to the U.S.), and affects not only family-based but also employment-based filings.
On January 31, 2020, the Trump administration expanded the current Travel Ban (commonly referred to as “Travel Ban 3.0”), which has been deemed lawful by the U.S. Supreme Court, to include additional countries. As with prior versions of Travel Ban 3.0, the expansion suspends entry by preventing visa issuance to citizens and nationals of the listed countries. As the ban is a visa issuance restriction and not an entry restriction, nationals from the affected countries who already hold visas may continue to use those visas.
On January 31, 2020, the Trump administration announced via Presidential Proclamation that, effective February 21, 2020 at 12:01 am eastern standard time, the travel ban will now apply to nationals from Burma (Myanmar), Eritrea, Kyrgyzstan, Nigeria, Sudan, and Tanzania.
