Category: Immigration Updates

EB-1 Unavailability through September 2024

Immigration Updates
The DOS has announced that the quota for EB-1 preference category for fiscal year 2024 (October 2023-September 2024) has been exhausted.  No further EB-1 green card applications (I-485 applications or immigrant visa...

Ninth Circuit clarifies in a 2-1 decision that state criminal convictions vacated under California Penal Code § 1473.7(a)(1) erase such convictions for immigration purposes

Immigration Updates
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...