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USCIS RELEASES PROPOSED FEE INCREASES FOR MULITPLE FORMS TO OFFSET COST OF ASLYUM ADJUDICATION U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services published a proposal last week of certain fee increases that they intend to implement as a way to increase their ability to fund the asylum program. A fee of $600 is expected to be paid by…

USCIS ISSUES PROPOSED RULE FOR FEE CHANGE FOR CERTAIN APPLICATIONS In an attempt to “fully recover its operating costs, reestablish and maintain timely case processing, and prevent the accumulation of future case backlogs,” USCIS has proposed a fee increase on certain nonimmigrant worker petitions. Few details have been released so far though the core elements…

E-VERIFY RENEWS ABILITY FOR EMPLOYERS TO SIMULTANEOUSLY UPLOAD MULTIPLE HIRING SITES E-Verify has restored the ability for employers, employer agents, and corporate administrators to upload multiple hiring sites simultaneously. This feature will allow increased efficiency for companies that operate multiple hiring sites by providing an alternative to manual entries and is available for all access…

DHS PUBLIC CHARGE FINAL RULE GOES INTO EFFECT DECEMBER 23, 2022 On December 23, 2022, the Department of Homeland Security’s Public Charge Ground of Inadmissibility rule will go into effect. The rule attempts to provide “clarity and consistency for noncitizens on how DHS will administer the public charge ground of inadmissibility.” According to DHS, when…

USCIS ANNOUNCES TRIAL OF NEW VERSION OF THE NATURALIZATION TEST The citizenship test for naturalization consists of two parts, an English test that evaluates an applicants ability to read, write and speak, and a civics test that assesses the applicant’s knowledge of U.S. government and history. In the new trial version of the naturalization test,…

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES SET TO VOTE ON EAGLE ACT NEXT WEEK The Equal Access to Green Cards for Legal Employment Act of 2022 has received bipartisan support and is scheduled to be voted on soon. The Act aims to eliminate per-country limits on employment-based green cards, raise annual limits on family-based green cards, and to…

USCIS ANNOUNCES WORK AUTHORIZATION INCIDENT TO PAROLE STATUS FOR CERTAIN AFGHAN AND UKRAINIAN PAROLEES As of November 21, 2022, USCIS is providing employment authorization incident to status and a no-fee initial employment authorization document to parolees from Afghanistan and Ukraine, in an attempt to accord parolees the same protections as refugees. Eligible parolees include: Afghanis…

CHILD STATUS PROTECTION ACT MAY OFFER HOPE TO DEPENDENTS AGING OUT OF GREEN CARD ELIGIBILITY With the employment-based priority dates for EB-2 and EB-3 nationals from India and China in retrogression, the Child Status Protection Act (CSPA) may provide some protection to dependents who turn twenty-one while waiting for their green card applications to be…

AS ELON MUSK LAYS OFF HALF OF ALL TWITTER EMPLOYEES, H-1B AND L-1 WORKERS ARE LEFT IN LIMBO US-based tech companies hire a significant number of H-1B workers and many are considered “H-1B dependent” which means that a notable portion of their workforce is in the country on an employment-related visa. Widespread layoffs such as…

BIG TECH PUSHES FOR ADDITIONAL IMMIGRATION PROTOCOL TO BE ADDED TO THE CHIPS AND SCIENCE ACT IN THE NAME OF NATIONAL SECURITY Three months ago, Congress passed the Chips and Science Act, which aims to attract foreign STEM workers to the United States to help reinvest in the domestic manufacturing of semiconductors and increase scientific…