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U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) plans to increase most of its government filing fees, and change the premium processing time to 15 business days instead of calendar days due to budgetary shortfalls.

DHS, H-1B, Nonimmigrant, USCIS, VisaNadia YakoobNovember 11, 2019USCIS, AOS, nonimmigrant, Naturalization, asylum applicant, premium processing

USCIS May Schedule your Interview at a Field Office Outside your Area of Residence

USCIS announced this week that it will begin redistributing pending naturalization and permanent residence applications from heavily back-logged field offices, such as San Francisco, Los Angeles, and New York, to field offices with smaller backlogs in order to minimize the wide disparity in processing times among the USCIS field offices. This means you could be called in for your interview at an office that is outside your area of residence.

Immigrant, USCISNadia YakoobJune 21, 2019USCIS, Naturalization, permanent residence, AOS, Interview, Immigration

April 2018 Visa Bulletin Released

The Department of State (DOS) has released the April 2018 Visa Bulletin. Most notably, the Employment-Based (“EB”)-1 category for Indian and Chinese nationals retrogresses dramatically from current to January 1, 2012. EB-2 and EB-3 for Chinese nationals, and EB-3 for Indian and Filipino nationals make significant advances while EB-2 for Indians holds steady.