Yesterday Trump issued an aggressive, anti-immigrant, unrealistic executive order that seeks to build more detention facilities and a wall between the US and Mexico, that targets immigration enforcement against immigrants with "southern" violations, that hopes to charge unqualified local and states law enforcement officials with federal immigration jobs, and that takes away the dignity of millions of immigrants Read More
Trump Vows to Build a Wall, Scare Immigrants, and Deny Help to Refugees
The new administration set the tone for immigration months ago. Today we see that it plans to continue its anti-immigrant stance. Check out the Boston Globe article at https://www.boston.com/news/politics/2017/01/24/trump-to-move-on-border-security-immigration-enforcement. Read More
Visa Bulletin
The new visa bulletin is available at https://travel.state.gov/content/visas/en/law-and-policy/bulletin/2017/visa-bulletin-for-february-2017.html. Read More
USCIS Processing Times
About every month, USCIS publishes processing times for its decisions on most USCIS forms. Whenever you receive a receipt notice from USCIS, it should have an address at the bottom of the form (generally on the left side). That is the office that is processing the form. At the top of the form, there is a "receipt" or "priority" date. Check the status of your form by looking at the Processing Times for the office Read More
Happy New Year, New Fees and New Forms
Happy 2017! Make sure to check USCIS's new versions of most forms and most new fees at USCIS.gov. USCIS will reject unauthorized versions of forms immediately and others after a cut-off date on February 17, 2017. USCIS will reject ALL applications that are not submitted the new, correct fees listed for each form. Read More
N-400 Application Has New Required Form
USCIS has updated Form N-400 Application for Naturalization. As of December 23, 2016, USCIS will ONLY accept the new version. Also, as of December 22, 2016, USCIS will require the new fees to be paid for N-400 and all other USCIS forms that have been subject to the fee increase. You can find the new USCIS Form N-400 here: https://www.uscis.gov/n-400 You can find the USCIS fee increase list Read More
DREAMers be wary
As stated by AILA, "This article from the Associated Press reports that some advocates are advising DACA recipients to make sure they are not traveling abroad when Donald Trump is sworn in as president on January 20, 2017, and quotes AILA President William Stock on how Trump could rescind the DACA Read More
Take action to protect DREAMers from Anti-Immigrant President-Elect Trump
During his campaign, President-Elect Trump made horrible statements about many Americans--US citizen Americans and non-US citizen Americans. From his words and actions, it is clear that he has no understanding of the positive impacts that foreign-born people bring to our nation. To help some of our most vulnerable and valuable young community members, take action through AILA to protect DREAMers. Read More
January 2017 Visa Bulletin with Updated Priority Dates
The US Department of State publishes an updated Visa Bulletin each month with updated priority dates for family and employment based immigrant petitions. The January 2017 Visa Bulletin is at https://travel.state.gov/content/visas/en/law-and-policy/bulletin/2017/visa-bulletin-for-january-2017.html. Read More
What Can Trump Do On Day One?
Many of us are concerned about President-Elect Trump's views on immigration (aside from his wife's alleged misuse of her visa). Attached is information from the American Immigration Lawyers' Association about what Trump could do with a "stroke of a pen" on the first day (or any day) of his Presidency. As of the writing of this blog, however, no immigration laws or policies have been changed. If you ever hear about Read More
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