Thousands of people are completing the process of becoming US citizens at drive-thru naturalization ceremonies. Social distancing has moved these ceremonies outdoors – and they have helped the US get through a backlog of more than 100,000 citizenship candidates this summer. For the newly minted US citizens, these drive-thru ceremonies […]
An H-1B visa is a non-immigrant visa that allows U.S. companies to employ highly skilled workers from other countries. Congress allows U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) to issue up to 65,000 H-1B work visas to highly skilled foreign workers each year. It can issue an additional 20,000 H-1B visas […]
President Donald Trump’s top immigration official entered his job unlawfully and now some of his policies must be “set aside,” a federal judge ruled. Cuccinelli was appointed as the acting director of the US Citizenship and Immigration Services last June, but federal vacancy rules required the “first assistant” step into […]
A former immigration officer for the US Customs and Border Protection agency lost his job and now fears deportation after an ironic twist of fate – he found out he wasn’t actually a US citizen. Raul Rodriguez worked for the US government since 2000 processing deportations. But while trying to […]
Acting director of US Citizenship and Immigration Services Ken Cuccinelli has been an immigration hardliner for much of his political career. He is currently facing scrutiny for rolling out a new “public charge” rule that would deny green cards for visa holders using or expected to use public benefits like […]
Tens of thousands of skilled, educated foreign workers are rushing to file their H-1B visa applications when processing opens on April 1. But many of them will be rejected – either by the highly selective lottery, or by delays that lawyers and experts attribute to the Trump administration’s crackdown on […]
The Trump administration has been cracking down on a highly coveted visa program for skilled, highly educated foreign workers. One of those workers, Leo Wang, left the United States on February 18 after his H-1B visa petition was denied. “This is supposed to be the place where you are very […]
Sixty CEOs have sent a letter to Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen denouncing policy changes they say are harming their companies’ immigrant workers. The executives named several recent changes that make it more challenging for highly skilled foreign workers to renew or apply for visas, or obtain green cards. The […]
The federal government is now accepting applications to renew permits under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals. The Trump administration had begun phasing out the program in September and intended to terminate it on March 5. A federal judge in California on Tuesday ordered the Trump administration to continue processing […]
