The Administrative Appeals Office (AAO) recently dismissed the appeal of a petition for a Special Immigrant Religious Worker, finding that the beneficiary could not demonstrate that she had two years of paid employment prior to filing the petition. The AAO denied the petition for employment...
The Administrative Appeals Office (AAO), in a non-precedent case, upheld the denial of an I-140 petition for the multinational executive / manager of a restaurant, noting that a recitation of the beneficiary's vague and broadly-cast job responsibilities was insufficient to establish that she would be...
The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) recently issued an announcement (PDF 40.6KB) that extends the suspension of premium processing services for religious worker (R-1) petitions for another six months, until July 8, 2008. A previous six-month suspension of such premium processing services was announced...
It is difficult to believe that we have all grown a year older - though, hopefully, wiser too - as 2007 comes to a close. Another year filled with memories, difficult times, good times, and life just moving on. In retrospect, the biggest news in...
On my recent trip to India, I had the distinct pleasure and opportunity to meet with various key consular officers at the U.S. Consulate in Chennai, India. The meeting was on the afternoon of Tuesday, October 9, 2007 (local time) at the Consulate. The meeting...
The USCIS provided some updated information on the many July and August I-485 Application for Adjustment of Status (AOS) filings, at an AILA conference held in late September 2007 at Lake Tahoe, Nevada. This information should prove useful to many MurthyDotCom and MurthyBulletin readers who...
The following questions and answers are based on those frequently posed to the attorneys at the Murthy Law Firm. We are sharing these to clarify information of concern to our clients and the entire immigrant community. MurthyDotCom and MurthyBulletin readers are reminded that these responses...
The U.S. Department of State (DOS) has announced that it will accept 2009 Diversity Visa (DV) Lottery applications from noon Eastern Time (ET) on October 3, 2007 to noon ET on December 2, 2007. The only acceptable way to apply is through the DOS online...
I am delighted to share that we at the Murthy Law Firm have succeeded in submitting a record number of I-485 cases for our clients during the period falling under the July 2007 Visa Bulletin of the U.S. Department of State (DOS). In fact, we...
We at the Murthy Law Firm have been receiving messages of thanks from many of our clients and others for keeping them well informed and for any part we played in the recent concessions from the U.S. Department of State (DOS) and the U.S. Citizenship...
