Immigration News Briefs – May 2022

USCIS Announces New Actions to Reduce Backlogs, Expand Premium Processing, and Provide Relief to Work Permit Holders USCIS- on March 29, USCIS announced a trio of efforts to increase efficiency and reduce burdens to the overall legal immigration system. USCIS will set new agency-wide backlog reduction goals, expand premium processing to additional form types, and …

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Immigration News Briefs – January 2022

USCIS Temporarily Waiving 60-Day Rule for Civil Surgeon Signatures USCIS is temporarily waiving the requirement that the civil surgeon sign Form I-693, Report of Medical Examination and Vaccination Record, no more than 60 days before an applicant files an application for the underlying immigration benefit (including Form I-485, Application to Register Permanent Residence or Adjust Status), until Sept. 30, …

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Immigration News Briefs – December 2021

USCIS Changes Work Permit Rules for H4/L2 spouses The American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA) and its litigation partners Wasden Banias and Steven Brown, made a settlement with DHS in Shergill, et al. v. Mayorkas, which provides structural changes for nonimmigrant H-4 and L-2 spouses suffering from long delayed processing times for the processing of applications for employment …

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