The Visa Bulletin (VB) is a monthly U.S. government report released by the State Department’s Travel Website. This monthly bulletin tells you when you can get a green card based on your priority date.
Summary of Key points for VB for October 2026
The USCIS Forms Updates web page lists their most recently updated forms. The list includes forms as they publish them and includes a brief explanation for the update.
The updated form listed below is their most recent addition to the list, dated October 16, 2026!
On Thursday October 15, a group of six legal service providers who work with unaccompanied migrant children filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration. They feel that these children are being forced to go through a more complex and accelerated immigration process with little to no legal resources and that is not what Congress intended. The lawsuit states, “This is not the immigration process that Congress intended for unaccompanied children; it is a deportation assembly line depriving them of their rights,”!
For more information, please review the CNN News article, “Trump administration sued over accelerated immigration process for migrant kids“.
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The Department of State has released its latest Visa Bulletin.
Click the link to view the October 2026 Visa Bulletin
The USCIS Forms Updates web page lists their most recently updated forms. The list includes forms as they publish them and includes a brief explanation for the update.
The updated form listed below is their most recent addition to the list, dated October 9, 2026!
List of some of the Top News Stories related to “ICE Holding Rooms in Baltimore”:
The Daily Record (thedailyrecord.com), 8/28/26, News Report:
Baltimore holding facility remains overcrowded, lawyers say, as ICE prepares Elkridge move
The USCIS Forms Updates web page lists their most recently updated forms. The list includes forms as they publish them and includes a brief explanation for the update.
The updated form listed below is their most recent addition to the list, dated October 7, 2026!
Columbus Day is a federal holiday celebrated on the second Monday of October and remembers Christopher Columbus arriving in the Americas on October 12, 1492. Some groups across the United States celebrate it as, “Indigenous Peoples’ Day“!
Columbus Day in the United States
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1. What is the Good Moral Character (GMC) standard for Naturalization?
As of August 15, 2025, USCIS is applying a rigorous, holistic, and comprehensive Good Moral Character (GMC) evaluation standard rather than just an absence of wrongdoing. This means that in addition to establishing that you have not done anything wrong, you will need to prove that you are a contributing member of society. USCIS is looking at the following factors: sustained community involvement and contributions in the U.S. (i.e., involvement in the Parent Teacher Association, involvement in social organizations, involvement in community service organizations, donations made to charitable organizations, etc.); family caregiving, responsibility, and ties in the U.S., (i.e., childcare responsibility and involvement, paying child support/alimony, existing family in the U.S., etc.); educational attainment (i.e., degree and transcripts, certifications, etc.); stable and lawful employment history and achievements (i.e., letter from employer, pay statements, 401k statement, etc.); length of lawful residence in the U.S.,; compliance with tax obligations and financial responsibility in the U.S. (i.e., submission of tax returns, proof of tax payment plans and compliance with those payments if applicable, credit report, etc.).
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