El 3 de diciembre de 2020, el Tribunal de Apelaciones del Noveno Circuito emitió una excelente decisión que aumentará el acceso a las visas U para los cónyuges de los solicitantes con solicitudes pendientes. Anteriormente, la víctima de un delito tenía que incluir a su cónyuge al momento de solicitar la visa U, pero la decisión de ayer sostiene…
USCIS has announced that it will restore DACA in compliance with a federal court order, including accepting initial requests for DACA, accepting renewal requests, and accepting applications for Advance Parole for DACA recipients under the original policy that was in effect prior to September 2017. Additionally, USCIS will extend one-year grants of DACA and Employment Authorization Documents to two years.…
On November 13, 2020, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services plans to roll out a revised version of the naturalization civics test. It will not apply to applicants who filed before December 1, 2020. In other words, applicants with Form N-400 on file before December 1, 2020 will take the old version of the test. According to USCIS, “[t]he revised test…
USCIS ha anunciado que restaurará DACA de conformidad con una orden judicial federal, para aceptar solicitudes iniciales de DACA, solicitudes de renovación y solicitudes del Documento de Viaje para los beneficiarios de DACA según la política original que estaba en vigor antes de septiembre de 2017. Además, USCIS extenderá la validez de las aprobaciones de un año de DACA…
On December 3, 2020, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals issued an excellent decision that will increase access to U visas for spouses of applicant’s with pending applications. Previously, a crime victim had to include their spouse at the time of applying for the U visa, but yesterday’s decision holds that an applicant can file a petition to include their…
El 13 de noviembre de 2020, el Servicio de Ciudadanía e Inmigración de EE. UU. Planea implementar una versión revisada de la prueba de civismo por naturalización. No se aplicará a los solicitantes que presentaron la solicitud antes del 1 de diciembre de 2020. En otras palabras, los solicitantes con el Formulario N-400 archivado antes del 1 de diciembre de…
Today’s 5-4 Supreme Court decision ruled against the current administration’s attempt to end DACA.This means that for now DACA is still alive. We’re so relieved for those currently in DACA status who have been in limbo feeling the weight of this upcoming decision on their shoulders. But the fight is not over! The decision unfortunately leaves the door open for…
What Does the New Executive Order Mean? New immigration into the US is suspended for 60 days for some categories of people not currently physically in the US. Who is impacted? Only people currently outside the US now who do not yet have a visa as of April 22, 2020 and who seek to come live permanently to the US.…
¿Qué? La nueva inmigración a los EE. UU. se suspende por 60 días para algunas categorías de personas que actualmente no se encuentran físicamente en los EE. UU. ¿Quién se ve afectado? Solo las personas que se encuentran actualmente fuera de los EE. UU. y que aún no tienen una visa a partir del 22 de abril de 2020 y…
Dear clients and potential clients, We know many of you will have seen the Tweet by the current president sent late last night threatening an Executive Order halting immigration. For now, there’s no need to panic: There is no Executive Order yet. This is so far just another late-night Tweet. Until we have an actual Executive Order nothing has changed.…