08
Dec
2025
US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has paused processing of immigration applications and petitions for certain foreign nationals, including a hold on all asylum approvals and a freeze on all application approvals for anyone from one of the 19 countries covered in the travel ban the administration issued this spring. It has also announced that it may READ MORE
15
Sep
2025
The U.S. Department of State (DOS) released the October 2025 Visa Bulletin providing the immigrant visa number availability to file for and obtain legal permanent residency (immigrant or “green card” status). For those interested in holding green card status, it is very important to check the Visa Bulletin each month to learn if a visa READ MORE
12
Jul
2023
If you have heard that USCIS issues employment authorization documents (EADs) based on compelling circumstances, you may be wondering if you qualify. In this blog post, we will explain eligibility for these EADs and how USCIS defines compelling circumstances. USCIS issues EADs based on compelling circumstances to help foreign workers who are employed in the READ MORE
01
Oct
2019
07
Aug
2019
In the wake of another terrorist attack, I highly recommend David Brooks’ editorial “The Ideology of Hate and How to Fight It” in August 7th’s NY Times. It is one of the best explanations of the strength of pluralism and inspires me to continue to promote diversity through my immigration law practice. He writes: READ MORE
03
Nov
2018
The US Supreme Court declined the Trump Administration’s request to halt a trial in Manhattan in one of the six lawsuits challenging the Trump Administration’s inclusion of a question on citizenship status on the 2020 census. Federal courts in California, Maryland, and New York have allowed five of the six challenges to the Trump Administration’s READ MORE
16
Jul
2018
US Citizenship and Immigration Services USCIS) issued a policy memo for adjudicators reviewing applications and petitions for immigration benefits that provides them with broader discretion to deny them outright without first sending a Request for Evidence (RFE) or a Notice of Intent to Deny (NOID). Such a policy shift is disproportionately punitive and may lead READ MORE