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Archive for the ‘Green Card’ Category
Friday, February 26th, 2010
All expedite requests are reviewed on a case-by-case basis, and are granted at the discretion of the Director. The burden is on the applicant or petitioner to demonstrate that one or more of the expedite criteria have been met. The criteria are as follows:
- Severe financial loss to company or individual
- Extreme emergent situation
- Humanitarian situation
- Nonprofit status of requesting organization in furtherance of the cultural and social interests of the United States
- Department of Defense or National Interest Situation (Note: Request must come from official United States Government entity and state that delay will be detrimental to our Government)
- USCIS error
- Compelling interest of USCIS
If you are filing your application or petition:
You must provide a written explanation as to why the application or petition needs to be expedited. You may include supporting evidence with the request. Write “EXPEDITE REQUEST” at the top of your letter. When you file your application or petition, place your expedite request letter on the top of your documents.
If you have already filed your application or petition:
You can contact the National Customer Service Center (NCSC) at 1-800-375-5283. The NCSC will take a “service request” and forward your expedite request to the office with jurisdiction over the application or petition. You also have the options of 1). visiting your local office by scheduling an InfoPass appointment or 2). writing a letter to the local office or service center.
If you have an attorney, it is always best to have the attorney handle this and all other communications with USCIS for you.
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Thursday, February 4th, 2010
On February 3, 2010, the Office of Foreign Assets Control added new part 548 to chapter V of 31 C.F.R. to implement Executive Order 13405 of June 26, 2006 (”E.O. 13405″), “Blocking Property of Certain Persons Undermining Democratic Processes or Institutions in Belarus.” In E.O. 13405, the President determined that the action and policies of certain members of the Government of Belarus and other persons to undermine Belarus democratic processes or institutions, to commit human rights abuses related to political repression, and to engage in public corruption constitute an unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign policy of the United States, and declared a national emergency and took additional steps to deal with that threat. E.O. 13405 blocks, with certain exceptions, all property and interests in property in the United States, or within the possession or control of U.S. persons, of the persons listed in the Annex to E.O. 13405 and any person determined to meet the designation criteria set forth in E.O. 13405.
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Tuesday, November 24th, 2009
WASHINGTON—U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) advises its customers that the
Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Appropriations Act of 2010, signed by the President on Oct.
28, 2009, extends the following USCIS programs until Sept. 30, 2012:
E-Verify, an Internet-based system operated by DHS in partnership with the Social Security
Administration (SSA), allows participating employers to electronically verify the employment eligibility
of their newly hired employees. More than 168,000 participating employers at nearly 640,000
worksites nationwide currently use the program. Since Oct. 1, 2009, more than 1.3 million
employment verification queries have been run through the system and approximately 96.9 percent
of all queries are now automatically confirmed without any need for employee action.
Under the Immigrant Investor Pilot Program, USCIS will continue to receive, process, and adjudicate
all Regional Center Proposals and Forms I-526, Immigrant Petitions by Alien Entrepreneur, and Form
I-485, Applications to Register Permanent Residence or Adjust Status, affiliated with Regional
Centers relying on “indirect” job creation analysis. Currently, there are more than 70 regional centers
throughout the United States.
The special immigrant visa category for non-minister religious workers covers those within a religious
vocation or occupation and also applies to accompanying or ‘following-to-join’ spouses and children
of non-ministers. USCIS will continue to receive and process Form 1-360, Petition for Amerasian,
Widow(er), or Special Immigrant and Form I-485, Application to Register Permanent Residence or
Adjust Status, based on Form I-360 petitions.
Finally, USCIS will continue to adjudicate immigration benefits covered by the “Conrad 30” program.
The “Conrad 30” program allows each state health department to submit a request directly to the
Department of State to initiate the waiver process for a foreign medical graduate who obtained J-1
status to change or adjust to another status without the required two-year foreign residence. The
law previously required the foreign medical graduate to have acquired J-1 status before Sept. 30,
2009; the law now extends the program to cover J-1 admissions before Sept. 30, 2012.
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