Posts From November, 2019

Due to its new public charge rule, the State Department has created a draft questionnaire for consular officers to enable them to decide the admissibility of visa applicants under the rule. The State Department will be accepting public comments on the draft questionnaire until December 23, 2013. After this, the form will be provided to […]

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration on November 12 to compel the government to release documents under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). Specifically, EFF is looking for information on “the number of individuals whose DNA had been collected, the accuracy of DNA matches, and the exact gene processing used […]

Nationals of El Salvador, Haiti, Honduras, Nepal, Nicaragua, and Sudan will receive extensions for Temporary Protected Status as DHS deals with challenging its decision to end the Temporary Protected Status for the mentioned countries. This extension will safeguard government’s continued yield to precursory injunctions orders for the Northern District of California by the U.S. District […]

The Department of Homeland Security announced that Polish Nationals will shortly be eligible to apply for visa-free business or tourist visitor travel to the U.S. This will be put into effect on November 11 and from November 11, Poland will officially be part of the 38 countries that already participate in the B-1 Visa Waiver […]

The EB-5 visa allows foreign nationals who make a significant investment in a U.S. company and help create jobs to immigrate to the United States. For the last 30 years, the amount of investment required was $500,000. On November 21, the amount required was raised to $900,000. The program has been criticized by some for corruption and […]

According to the Department of Homeland Security, there is a strong likelihood that the proposal it plans to put forward to revoke the H-4 EAD program may not be published before Spring 2020, and the proposal’s likelihood of being published by Spring 2020 is even more tentative.  This announcement was made through a letter from […]

The newly proposed set of regulations in the Unified Agenda for DHS would affect all manner of noncitizens, including asylum seekers, H-1B and L-1 visa holders, EB-5 investors, international students, employers of immigrants, and others. The rule changes vary, but to boil them down to the main point: the rules aim to further limit the amount […]

Government funding will be temporarily extended through November 21, 2019, due to a Congressional vote. This temporary spending measure will impact all federal functions which include immigration programs and will go on through November 21, 2019, as Fiscal Year (FY) 2020 budget negotiations are made. The president is expected to sign this bill and it […]

In order to create new forms and procedures to help put its new public charge rule into effect, the State Department has decided to postpone its decision to put the public charge rule into effect. Hence, unless there are further updates from the State Department, visa applications will not undergo the more increased or careful […]

By Emma Winger, Staff Attorney with the American Immigration Council, ImmigrtionImpact.com The Trump administration is proposing a new rule that would delay work authorization for people seeking asylum in the United States. The move is drawing opposition from advocates across the country. The proposed rule risks leaving people unable to support themselves and their families for months. The […]