On July 19, 2018, the Department of Homeland Security announced that temporary protected status (TPS) for Somalia nationals will be extended to March 17, 2020. Somalia nationals will be required…
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We just had an E-2 Investor visa approval at the U.S. Consulate in Toronto. The applicant was granted the visa for 5 years and the business specializes in the design and…
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On Monday, Judge Dana Sabraw, the same San Diego judge who gave a deadline for the government to reunite families, one of which the government has already missed, ordered for…
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Scott Legal just had an approval for two years for a Senior User Experience Researcher at the U.S. Embassy in Bridgetown, Barbados. Scott Legal, P.C. regularly processes E-3 applications for…
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Scott Legal just had an E-2 investor visa approval at the U.S. Consulate in Paris. The applicant is a French national and the business is a Mediterranean restaurant based in…
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USCIS have issued a new policy memorandum today that provides guidelines to USCIS adjudicators regarding their discretion to deny an application, petition, or request without first issuing a Request for…
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Announced in the State Department’s August Visa Bulletin, Employment-Based Immigration: First Preference (EB-1) visa have retrogressed for all countries worldwide, except for Mainland China and India, to May 1, 2016.…
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Last month, in Pereira vs. Session, the Supreme Court ruled 8 to 1 that the government has been sending invalid Notices to Appear (NTA) to noncitizens facing deportation. NTA’s are…
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On June 26, San Diego District Court Judge Dana Sabraw ruled that the Trump administration has 30 days to reunite the migrant children who have been separated from their parents…
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On June 9, 2018, U.S. District Court Judge Dolly Gee has denied the Trump administration’s attempt to detain migrant families together indefinitely by rejecting the request to allow governments to…
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On July 5, 2018, the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) published a new Policy Memorandum regarding procedure for cases where an adjustment of status application is denied. An…
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We just had an E-2 company registration and employee visa approval at the U.S. Consulate in London. The applicant is a senior executive and the business focuses on the sale…
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We just had a green card approval for an employee of a large company. The applicant was sponsored for a green card by their U.S. employer and the applicant and their family…
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On Thursday, Canada passed Bill C-46 which will increase the maximum term of imprisonment for driving while impaired from the current no more than five years, to no more than…
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TN visa for lawyer approved at the U.S. Consulate in Mexico. Scott Legal just had an approval for a TN visa in Mexico. TN visas are based on the Free…
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On July 5, 2018, the Department of Homeland Security announced that temporary protected status (TPS) for Yemen nationals will be extended to March 3, 2020. Yemen nationals will be required…
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We just had an approval for a TN Economist at the USCBP Port of Entry in Norton, Vermont. The applicant, a Canadian national, had been offered a job as an…
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On March 6, 2017, President Trump signed Executive Order 12780, which, among other things, called for the implementation of standardized vetting procedures for immigration benefits, including in-person interviews. Based on…
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The Department of Justice is currently drafting a sweeping regulation that could overhaul the asylum policy in the United States. To learn more about the current asylum program, please click…
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On January 17, 2017, the Department of Homeland Security published the Final Rule on the International Entrepreneur Parole Program, which established USCIS’s authority to grant parole status under the International…
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Dual citizenship, and its relationship to immigration law, is a complex legal concept that can be easily misunderstood. Distilled to its essence, the concept of dual citizenship means that individuals…
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In the Annual Report to Congress, USCIS Ombudsman Julie Kirchner has addressed several anti-fraud initiatives that have caused delays and longer processing times for many applications. The Ombudsman’s office is…
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The Immigration and Nationality Act defines a child who as a person under the age of 21 and is unmarried. Parents who apply for non-immigrant and immigrant visas in the…
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With illegal immigration, family separation, and refugees prevalent in the news lately, asylum has also become a hot topic of contention. In order to successfully apply for asylum, an applicant…
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We just had an E-2 visa approval at the U.S. Consulate in Sydney. The applicant is a fashion designer who created a clothing brand for women which will be sold…
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