Monthly Archives: July 2016

Policy Alert: Effective Date of Lawful Permanent Residence for Purposes of Citizenship and Naturalization

Purpose U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) is issuing guidance in the USCIS Policy Manual regarding the effective date of lawful permanent residence for purposes of citizenship and naturalization. Background In general, an applicant for naturalization must be at least 18 years old and must establish that he or she has been lawfully admitted to the United States for permanent residence at the time of filing the naturalization application.1 In addition, a child born abroad may become a U.S. citizen when all conditions have been met including admission as a lawful permanent resident…Read More Breaking News

Possible Class Action by famous Attorney Ira Kurzban for UNNJ students.

  • Posted on July 28, 2016
  • /Under UNNJ
This is an announcement from a group of volunteers from UNNJ regarding all those affected by the University of Northern New Jersey (UNNJ) tragic situation. We are UNNJ student volunteer group founded by 15 former UNNJ students. In the past 2 months, we were actively seeking opportunities of a class action to fight against the fraud charge and regain our lawful status. Up to this moment, we have made significant progress. The legend of American Immigration Law, Mr. Ira Kurzban, who is a past-national President of the American Immigration Lawyers Association and has…Read More Breaking News

Successful Change of Status case from H1 to F1 case – Testimonial

One of most trusted lawyer and well-wisher I had ever seen in my life. 1. Prompt response of every question through email without hurting to client. 2. Good guidance. 3. Very Honest, Well experienced and highly professional. 4. Talked always Law point of view. ** Got approval after a long awaited 260 days with one RFE ** I was on H4 & my wife was on H1B My case (H1B to F2 & H4 to F1) was very sensitive and it was very short time to put up my request any attorney at…Read More Breaking News

August 2016 Visa Bulletin is out and bad news for every EB categories!

The August 2016 Visa Bulletin is probably one of the biggest horror stories in years, not only we are not seeing a movement for India, we are seeing retrogression on EB1 for China and India. There is a retrogression on EB2 for all countries of the world . They have also added El-Salvador and Honduras which is also retrogressed. We will prepare our prediction for September 2016 in the coming weeks and unfortunately, it seems we are not going to see good things happening. Let us wait and see!Read More Breaking News

Consulting companies can place STEM OPT students but cannot sign the form I-983

After a clarification from DHS that placement companies also known as consulting companies can actually place students on 24 Months STEM OPT, there is still the question on who or which organization is allowed to sign on form I-983 to obtain the form I-20 OPT and ultimately get a work authorization. This article from the website of "Study in the States" partly clarifies who can actually sign on the form I-983 in such cases.  The DHS is mentioning who should sign he form I-983  when candidates are placed at a third party organization.…Read More Breaking News

H1B in house projects problems!

July 6th 2016 - Lately we have been receiving a number of calls regarding H1B in house projects which were initially approved but now being revoked because after investigation the "in house projects" used to obtain the H1B approvals was defective. We have made this video to alert people on this issue.Read More Breaking News

President Obama has signed into law the FOIA Improvement Act of 2016.

The FOIA, Freedom of Information Act, is often a powerful tool used by immigration practitioners and applicant to actually get the 'files' or documents in custody of the government. FOIA requests which can be obtained by filing the form G-639 from the USCIS website is instrumental especially in cases which have been long pending with the government. By signing the FOIA Improvement Act 2016, President Obama makes it a little easier for applicants and immigrants to have access to their cases. We applaud this new rule of transparency. June 30, 2016 Today, as…Read More Breaking News