This evening, President Trump signed an executive order to halt the issuance of immigrant visas for 60 days. On Monday night, the President tweeted that he would "temporarily suspend immigration into the United States." In reality, his executive order merely halts the issuance of immigrant...
Moments ago, President Trump provided some additional details on his plans to "temporarily suspend immigration into the United States." The President will sign an executive order that will suspend the issuance of green cards for 60 days. It appears nonimmigrants will not be impacted by...
The Murthy Law Firm has been closely tracking President Trump's threat, sent via Twitter late Monday, April 20, 2020, to use an executive order to "temporarily suspend immigration into the United States." At this point, no such executive order has been issued, so U.S. immigration...
Answer It does not appear to be possible to correct a registration at this point. The recommendation at this stage typically would be to file the petition with the correct information. Assuming the error in the registration was relatively minor (e.g., a minor typo in the...
Shortly after the results were released for the H1B registration lottery, the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA) received reports from a number of immigration attorneys who had received denial notices for some clients' registrations based upon the existence of duplicate registrations (i.e., more than one...
The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced today that it will not issue receipt notices or begin data entry for cap-subject H1B petitions until at least May 1, 2020. The USCIS further cautions of a general delay in processing cap-subject H1B petitions. Per the...
The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) Vermont Service Center (VSC) has reopened today, following a brief closure last week. The closure was the result of a possible case of COVID-19. However, the test fortunately came back as negative for the virus. Copyright © 2020, MURTHY...
The Murthy Law Firm recently scored another legal victory in federal court, suing the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) over an H1B petition denial based on lack of specialty occupation. Our legal team examined the denial and concluded that the legal reasoning used by...
The American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA) has received a number of reports from members that there was a possible COVID-19 exposure at the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) Vermont Service Center (VSC), forcing the center to temporarily close. According to the reports, the VSC...
The American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA) filed a federal lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), asking the court to order the DHS to "toll any and all deadlines for initial applications, responses to any and all requests for evidence or other responses...
