Category: USCIS
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This CATO Institute blog desribes the new memo on issuing Green Cards only in Consular offices overseas as quiet quitting. There are over 1.2 million green card applications at USCIS. This new procedure which doesn’t seem to be supported by law would effectively eliminate many green card applicants. There is a good chart in the…
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This article explains changes to USCIS. A new group looks for fraud, re-vets refugees, and can make arrests.
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There are over 10,000 doctors with H1B (specialty) visas and 17,000 doctors with J1 (exchange visitor) currently practicing in the U.S. The visa freeze (and delays of renewal) by USCIS is causing havoc for these doctors many of whom work in rural areas of the U.S. Read here.
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This report, from the Migration Policy Institute, discusses a variety of federal immigration policies that are getting varying degrees of push-back from federal courts. Those policies include the following:
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The National Immigration Forum provides this primer on how DHS will arrest and re-vet refugees and arrived during the Biden Administration.
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CATO Institute reports that the US now has (full or partial) visa bans on 93 countries
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This article explains that the government’s H1B database (used to reserach and analyze the employers using H1B labor) is not longer available. The article says that DHS is working to restore the database.
Immigration Insight 