The United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) will be holding a stakeholder teleconference on Thursday, August 14, 2014 between 1:30 to 2:30pm (EST). The subject of the event will be a “Dialogue with USCIS Director León Rodríguez” and will include his introduction and a Q&A session. León Rodríguez was…
Processing Time reports for all of the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service (USCIS) Service Centers were released on 8/7/14 with processing dates as of 6/30/14. If you filed a petition with one of the Service Centers, please review the links below to determine the applicable processing time associated with your…
This is an excerpt from MVP Law Group’s July 2014 Immigration Newsletter, our Managing Attorney, Kellie Lego‘s monthly greeting/commentary. I recently attended the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA) annual conference in Boston, MA from June 18 – June 21 attended by over 3,000 Immigration Attorneys across the U.S. In our…
On July 23, 2014, a 32 year old Jamaican national, Nerene Erica Harrison was convicted in Federal Court (Tampa, FL) of Marriage Fraud under U.S. Immigration Law. Robert Kenneth Scott Cruz, a U.S. citizen who pleaded guilty of the same charge, was paid $6,000 to marry her after her temporary…
USA Today has put together an interactive map of the United States (state by state) showing the number of unaccompanied immigrant children placed within individual states. They are using the data released by the U.S. Office of Refugee Resettlement showing a state-by-state breakdown of the number of unaccompanied immigrant minors…
On Wednesday, July 23, 2014, Congresswoman Kay Granger (R-TX), the Chairwoman of the GOP House Working Group on national security and humanitarian crisis at the southern border released their recommendations and solutions. Granger stated, “This morning, I presented to the House GOP Conference the recommendations of Speaker Boehner’s working group.…
Processing Time reports for all of the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service (USCIS) Service Centers were released on 7/17/14 with processing dates as of 5/31/14. If you filed a petition with one of the Service Centers, please review the links below to determine the applicable processing time associated with your…
On Wednesday, July 9, 2014, Leon Rodriguez was sworn in as the next Director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS). USCIS is a federal government agency with nearly 18,000 employees. They are responsible for administering the country’s immigration and naturalization system. USCIS is under the control of the U.S.…
Processing Time reports for all of the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service (USCIS) Service Centers were released on 7/8/14 with processing dates as of 5/31/14. If you filed a petition with one of the Service Centers, please review the links below to determine the applicable processing time associated with your…
President Obama has asked Congress for $3.7 billion in emergency funds to deal with the current crisis of unaccompanied minors crossing the southwest border of the United States. These children are fleeing from Mexico (25%) and the Central American (75%) countries of El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras. The list below…