Visa Bulletin For May 2024
A. STATUTORY NUMBERS FOR PREFERENCE IMMIGRANT VISAS This bulletin summarizes the availability of immigrant numbers during May for: “Final Action Dates” and “Dates for Filing Applications,” indicating when immigrant visa applicants should be notified to assemble and...
Visa Bulletin For March 2024
A. STATUTORY NUMBERS FOR PREFERENCE IMMIGRANT VISAS This bulletin summarizes the availability of immigrant numbers during March for: “Final Action Dates” and “Dates for Filing Applications,” indicating when immigrant visa applicants should be notified to assemble and...
Domestic Visa Re-Validation
On January 29, 2024, DOS started a pilot program that allows certain H-1B visa holders to renew their visas online without having to leave the United States to visit an embassy or consulate abroad. Currently, the program is available only for individuals whose last...
Visa Bulletin For September 2023
A. Statutory Numbers for Preference Immigrant Visas This bulletin summarizes the availability of immigrant numbers during September for: “Final Action Dates” and “Dates for Filing Applications,” indicating when immigrant visa applicants should be notified to assemble...
Visa Bulletin For August 2023
A. Statutory Numbers for Preference Immigrant Visas This bulletin summarizes the availability of immigrant numbers during August for: “Final Action Dates” and “Dates for Filing Applications,” indicating when immigrant visa applicants should be notified to assemble and...
DHS Announces Family Reunification Parole Processes for Colombia, El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras
DHS Announces Family Reunification Parole Processes for Colombia, El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras Release Date 07/07/2023 Biden-Harris Administration continues strategy to provide lawful pathways and reduce dangerous irregular migration WASHINGTON – The U.S....
DHS Launches Process for Afghans to Extend Permission to Stay in the U.S.
Time was running out for many Afghan refugees living and working in the United States after American troops withdrew from Afghanistan. Thanks to the Biden administration’s recent decision to extend what is known as “parole,” many Afghans will now be given the...
Visa Bulletin For June 2023
A. Statutory Numbers for Preference Immigrant Visas This bulletin summarizes the availability of immigrant numbers during June for: “Final Action Dates” and “Dates for Filing Applications,” indicating when immigrant visa applicants should be notified to assemble and...
USCIS Providing Documents After Notice of Immigration Judge and BIA Decisions About Immigration Status
We now are affirmatively creating and providing documented evidence of their status to certain new asylees and lawful permanent residents upon our receiving notification that an immigration judge or the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) has granted status....
President Biden Announces Plan to Expand Health Coverage to DACA Recipients
In 2012, President Obama and then Vice President Biden announced the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program to allow young people to live and work in the only country they know as home. Over the last decade, DACA has brought stability, possibility, and...