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On Monday, August 19, 2024, the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) began accepting online applications for the Biden Administration’s new family-based Parole-in-Place policy. This groundbreaking program,...

On August 15, 2024, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit published Bent v. Garland, an important decision clarifying for the first time in a published opinion whether California state convictions vacated under...

USCIS announced that it selected 114,017 beneficiaries, resulting in 120,603 selected registrations in the initial selection for the FY2025 H-1B cap. Subsequently, it selected 13,607 beneficiaries in the second selection for...

The Department of State (DOS) posted the September 2024 Visa Bulletin which, in addition to final action dates and dates for filing, contains notes regarding the FY2025 diversity visa results, visa availability for EB-3 and...

The USCIS issued a fact sheet indicating that the number of O-1A extraordinary ability petitions filed has increased from 5,420 in FY2018 to 10,010 in FY2023. This increase in O-1A petitions in STEM fields is likely the...