Welcome back to Visalawerblog! We hope you had a relaxing thanksgiving weekend. In this blog post we share an important update for K visa applicants impacted by the Coronavirus proclamations. The Department of State recently issued a statement explaining how the agency will comply with a preliminary injunction issued by…
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Success Story: Expediting a K-1 Visa Interview at the U.S. Consulate in Naples, Italy
Happy Friday! Welcome back to Visalawyerblog! In this blog post, we bring you a recent success story and share with you how our office was able to expedite our client’s fiancé visa to help her reunite with her U.S. Citizen fiancé despite being subject to Presidential Proclamation 9993 also known as the…
Federal Judge Issues Court Order Preventing DOS from Stopping Visa Issuance for K Visa Beneficiaries from COVID Proclamation Countries
Welcome back to Visalawyerblog! We kick off the start of the weekend with some exciting news for K-1 visa petitioners and their foreign fiancés. Yesterday, November 19, 2020, a federal judge from the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia issued a decision finding that the government acted unlawfully…
Public Charge Rule Remains in Place After Seventh Circuit Stays Lower Court Decision
Welcome back to Visalawyerblog! Happy Friday. In this post we bring you very important yet unfortunate news regarding ongoing litigation in the fight to invalidate the public charge rule known as “Inadmissibility on Public Charge Grounds.” As we previously reported, on November 2, 2020, a federal judge from the U.S.…
Federal Judge Issues Ruling Setting Aside the Public Charge Rule Immediately
Happy Monday! Welcome back to Visalawyerblog. We kick off the start of a brand-new week with an important court ruling, decided today, that invalidates the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) final rule entitled “Inadmissibility on Public Charge Grounds,” also known as “the public charge,” rule. With this new ruling, the…
Federal Court of Appeals Declares Victory for TPS Beneficiaries applying for Green Cards
Happy Wednesday! Welcome back to Visalawyerblog. In this post, we share some exciting news for beneficiaries of Temporary Protected Status (TPS), who initially entered the country without inspection or admission, but later received TPS, and are now seeking to apply for adjustment of status to lawful permanent residence. Yesterday, October…
Federal Judge Issues Limited Injunction Against Proclamation 10052
On October 1, 2020, federal judge Jeffrey White of the U.S. Court for the Northern District of California issued a preliminary injunction that prevents the government from enforcing Presidential Proclamation 10052 issued on June 22, 2020, but only against the Plaintiffs in the lawsuit which include the National Association of…
Federal Judge Temporarily Halts Immigration Fee Increases
We have important new developments to share with our readers regarding the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) planned increase in filing fees for certain applications and petitions, which was set to go into effect beginning October 2nd 2020. As we previously reported on our blog, in early August…
UPDATE: USCIS Announces Public Charge Rule Will Be Implemented Nationwide
The public charge rule is back. On September 11, 2020, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit issued a decision that allows the Department of Homeland Security to resume enforcement of the Public Charge Ground of Inadmissibility final rule on a nationwide basis, including in New York, Connecticut,…
Department of State Updates for Diversity Visa 2020 Lottery Winners
We are happy to report that the Department of State has released an important announcement that describes the agency’s compliance with the recent court ruling, Gomez v. Trump, which orders the government to make good-faith efforts to expeditiously schedule, process, and adjudicate DV-2020 diversity visa applications by September 30, 2020,…