Beginning late Spring 2016, USCIS has demonstrated a nationwide trend to deny change of status from B-2 to F-1 applications, which were timely filed but because USCIS lengthy adjudications took more than 30 days beyond the foreign national’s status expiration...
Looks like an equivalent of an E-2 Treaty Investor visa, B-5 category, will be created for Israeli nationals in March this year. This will open many new business opportunities for our clients. Learn More
Read the full text of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals refusal to reinstate President Donald J. Trump’s travel ban: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/02/09/us/document-Ninth-Circuit-s-Decision-on-Trump-s-Travel-Ban.html?smid=fb-nytimes&smtyp=cur Visa bulletin for March 2017 is up: https://travel.state.gov/content/visas/en/law-and-policy/bulletin/2017/visa-bulletin-for-march-2017.html
The Department of Homeland Security has published a new rule, effective December 23, 2016, that raises immigration filing fees. The last time USCIS updated the fee schedule was on November 23, 2010. The current USCIS fee schedule and the new...