The USCIS responded to questions posed by the American Immigration Lawyers Association's liaison committee and released information in April 2008 regarding a number of matters relevant to MurthyDotCom and MurthyBulletin readers. These include consideration of a multi-year Employment Authorization Document (EAD) and Advance Parole (AP)...
The Murthy Law Firm has received from the USCIS a response to a question that was previously unanswered.The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) issued a regulation entitled Extending Period of Optional Practical Training by 17 Months for F-1 Nonimmigrant Students With STEM Degrees and...
With the backlog in processing employment-based second and third preference cases (EB2 and EB3, respectively), particularly for nationals of India and China, other options like the employment-based first preference (EB1), employment-based fourth preference (EB4) and the employment-based fifth preference (EB5), all become more important for...
The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) held a stakeholder meeting on January 29, 2008, the details of which were released recently. Questions were answered on receipting frontlogs and case backlogs, processing times, special circumstances in naturalization cases, religious worker cases, and other immigration matters....
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...
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...
