.

THE OH LAW FIRM
Immigration Law Practice for Over 27 Years


www.immigration-law.com (Home Page)
Matthew Oh Attorney Blog

Breaking News

(07/01/2010 - Present)

 The Oh Law Firm and its Lawyers are not responsible for reliance by the reader on this information as each individual situation may be unique and different. The readers are advised to seek legal counsel from a qualified immigration attorney. The information stated here is subject to change.


Automatic Visa Revalidation Restriction Regulation
I-140/485 Concurrent Filing Regulation
Non-immigrant Allied Health care Worker Visa Screen Requirement Final Rule
PERM Final Regulation

Home Page: www.immigration-law.com

Current Page[07/01/2010 - Present]/Archive XXI[03/01/2010-06/30/2010]/Archive XX[05/01/2009-02/28/2010/Archive XIX[10/01/2008-04/30/2009]/Archive XVII[03/31/2008 - 09/30/2008]Archive XVI[08/01/2007 - 03/31/2008/Archive XV [04/30/2007 - 07/31/2007]/Archive XIV[06/15/2006 - 03/31/2007]Archive XIII [12/01/05 - 06/1/06. ].
Warning: The postings at this site are protected by copyright. Anyone who copies and publishes without disclosing the sources (www.immigration-law.com) will violate our copyright, not to mention reprehensible and unethical conduct of plagiarism.


 Questions & Answers Sessions

09/02/2010: USCIS Enforces New 08/09/2010 I-864P Poverty Income Guidelines

09/02/2010: USCIS 09/01/2010 Executive Summary Public Law 111-230 (H-1B & L-1 Fee Increase Provisions)

09/02/2010: New USCIS Policy Memorandum on Denial Language to Appeals to BIA

08/31/2010: USCIS Naturalization Processing and Backlog Statistics as of 07/31/2010

08/31/2010: USCIS Immigration Benefits Applications Processing and Backlog Statistics as of 07/31/2010

08/31/2010: Latest H-1B Cap Count of USCIS (08/27/2010)

08/28/2010: Deadline of FY 2011 H-1B Cap Filing

08/27/2010: By-Product of Failure of CIR - Growing Tension of Obama Policy Within ICE

08/26/2010: USCIS Latest H-2B Cap Count of 08/23/2010

08/26/2010: ICE Plan for Employment Authorization for Certain Haitian F-1 Students Experiencing Hardship by January Earthquake in Haiti

08/25/2010: Religious Worker Special Immigrant Concurrent I-485 Filing in Crisis

08/24/2010: H-1B Cap Count of 08/20/2010

08/24/2010: USCIS Fee Increase Final Rule Presented to OMB Yesterday for Approval

08/20/2010: National Visa Center (NVC) Frequently Asked Questions Relating to Consular Immigrant Visa Processing

08/20/2010: USCIS Draft Memorandum for Evaluation of "Evidentiary Criteria in Certain I-140 Petitions"

08/20/2010: Effective 09/08/2010, Visa Waiver Program Travelers Pay $14.00 ESTA (Electronic System for Travel Authorization) Fee

08/20/2010: EAD Delay Alerts for EB-485 Waiters

08/19/2010: USCIS Announcement: USCIS Implements H-1B and L-1 B Fee Increase According to Public Law 111-230 (aka H.R. 6080 Bill)

08/19/2010: USCIS to Release H.R. 6080 H-1B + L-1 Fee Increase Implementation Guidance Soon

08/19/2010: U.S. Department of Labor Draft Strategic Plan for FY 2011-2016

Protecting Job Opportunities for Americans
Performance Goal ETA 1.5 — Maintain oversight to ensure that employers are compliant with wage and overtime laws with respect to certified foreign laborers.

ETA’s Office of Foreign Labor Certification (OFLC) helps protect workers’ wages by reviewing employer requests for certification of a foreign worker to work in the United States. ETA’s OFLC assures that the hiring of a foreign worker will not adversely impact the wages and working conditions of U.S. workers and that no qualified U.S. workers are willing or available to fill a given vacancy. Employers seeking to hire foreign workers are required to conduct good-faith efforts to locate talent in their communities. In addition, employers are required to pay any foreign worker the wage rate that prevails in the area of employment for the occupation and to comply with all laws governing such employment. Strategies for improving timeliness and quality of certification processes include fee-based funding of application processing, revising applications to promote clarity and ease of use by employers, and for the permanent program, enhancing audit and oversight.

08/19/2010: Growing Rise of Volumes & Trends of USCIS Pending Cases for Immigration Benefits and Naturalization Cases

08/18/2010: USCIS Processing Delays for Re-Registration of El Salvadorans for TPS and Form I-130

08/18/2010: USCIS Updates Monthly Processing Times 08/18/2010

08/18/2010: USCIS Schedules Teleconference Tomorrow to Discuss How to Implement H-1B/L-1 Fee Increase Under H.R. 6080

08/17/2010: USCIS Announces Implementation of H-1B and L-1 Filing Fee Increase for Certain Employers Under the New Emergency Border Security Appropriations Act [USCIS has taken down this announcement from its website without explanation. Accordingly, we will also retract this posting]

08/17/2010: USCIS Latest H-1B Cap Count of 08/13/2010

08/17/2010: USCIS Latest H-2B Cap Count of 08/13/2010

08/17/2010: Official PERM Latest Processing Time Update as of 07/31/2010

08/12/2010: Wow, That Is Fast. H.R. 6080 Presented to President Today, and President to Sign 08/13/2010, Friday

08/12/2010: Senate Passed H.R. 6080!

08/12/2010: Text of Senator Sessions Bill on Certain Long Time Conditional Residents' Adjustment of Status

08/11/2010: U.S. Senate Returns to Special Session at 10:00 a.m., 08/12/2010 (Thursday) to Take Care of Emergency Border Security Supplemental Appropriation Act Which the House Passed

08/11/2010: Official September Visa Bulletin

08/10/2010: House Passed Emergency Border Security Supplemental Appropriation Act of 2010 in Different Bill Number H.R. 6080

08/10/2010: H-2B Cap Count of 08/06/2010

08/10/2010: House Special Session Floor Schedule Today

08/09/2010: Administrative Appeals Processing Times of USCIS AAO as of 08/01/2010

08/09/2010: Well Put, New York Times Editorial on the 14th Amendment Controversy

08/09/2010:Latest H-1B Cap Counted on 08/06/2010

08/09/2010: Proposed Reengineering and Tightening of H-2B Certifications by Office of Foreign Labor Certification

08/09/2010: House Scheduled to Return to Session Tomorrow & Take Up Just Passed Senate Emergency Border Spending Bill as Amended

08/07/2010: Emergency Border Spending Bill - Misguided?

08/06/2010: Senate Passed H-1B and L-1 Filing Fee Substantial Increase Yesterday as Part of $600 Million Emergency Border Security Supplemental Appropriations Act of 2010

08/06/2010: USCIS Expands Employment Authorization for Dependents of Foreign Officials Effective 08/09/2010

08/06/2010: Congress Over One-Month Summer-Break Until September 14, 2010

08/05/2010: Senate Passed The Help Haiti Act of 2010 Yesterday With Amendment, H.R. 5283

08/05/2010: Sen. Jeff Sessions of Alabama Introduces S. 3702 to Grant Adjustment of Status to Certain Long Time Conditional Residents

08/04/2010: What a Wonderful Feeling of Receiving Email Notices of August 2010 Visa Bulletin 485 Approvals!

08/04/2010: USCIS Changes Filing Location to Lock Boxes for the Following Forms

08/03/2010: H-1B Cap Count as of 07/30/2010

08/03/2010: H-2B Cap Count for FY 2010 2nd Half and FY 2011 1st Half as Counted on 07/30/2010

08/02/2010: HHS Notice of Continued Delays of Update of Poverty Guidelines Until January 2011

08/01/2010: Reported USCIS Response to the Leaked Memo

Internal draft memos do not and should not be equated with official action or policy of the Department. We will not comment on notional, pre-decisional memos. As a matter of good government, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) will discuss just about every issue that comes within the purview of the immigration system. We continue to maintain that comprehensive bipartisan legislation, coupled with smart, effective enforcement, is the only solution to our nation’s immigration challenges.

Internal memoranda help us do the thinking that leads to important changes; some of them are adopted and others are rejected. Our goal is to implement policies wisely and well to strengthen all aspects of our mission. The choices we have made so far have strengthened both the enforcement and services sides of USCIS — nobody should mistake deliberation and exchange of ideas for final decisions. To be clear, DHS will not grant deferred action or humanitarian parole to the nation’s entire illegal immigrant population.

08/01/2010: Alleged Sources of Leakage of USCIS Memo on Administrative Solutions to CIR

08/01/2010: The Congressional Schedules Ahead

07/31/2010: Leaked Undated USCIS Memo for Internal Discussion and Nagative Impact on Prospects for Administrative Fixes

07/30/2010: USCIS Considers Administrative Fixes As Alternatives to Comprehensive Immigration Reform

07/29/2010: Immigration Benefits and Naturalization Benefits Applications Statistics as of 06/30/2010

07/29/2010: "Admission" Requirement for I-485 Eligibility and Important Board of Immigration Appeals Decision Handed Down Yesterday

07/28/2010: Federal Judge Susan Bolton Issued Preliminary Injunction Blocking Profiling Provision of Arizona Immigration

07/28/2010: H-2B Cap Count as of 07/23/2010

07/27/2010: USCIS Policy Review Results Report Released 07/26/2010

07/27/2010: Incoming Questions & Answers Session Email Questions

07/27/2010: Recent Unreliability of USCIS 'My Case Status Check' and Email Notification Systems

07/27/2010: USCIS Expands Fee Payment Methods

07/26/2010: Please Stay Tuned for Our Return to the Questions and Answers Sessions

07/26/2010: Latest H-1B Cap Counted on 07/23/2010

07/22/2010: Latest H-1B Cap Counted on 07/16/2010

07/22/2010: H-2B Cap Count as of 07/16/2010

07/20/2010: DOL Performance and Results of PERM and H-1B LCA Processing During January Thru March 2010

07/15/2010: Latest Update of USCIS Processing Times 07/15/2010 for Service Centers, Local Offices, and National Benefits Center

07/15/2010: Change of Address and Potential Impact on Last Minute Adjudication of EB-485 Applications Whose Visa Numbers Become Available

0713/2010: Latest H-1B Cap Counted on 07/09/2010

07/13/2010: List of Witnesses to Testiby Before House Immigration Subcommittee Hearing Scheduled Tomorrow Morning on Immigration Reform Ethics Issues

07/13/2010: PERM Processing Times as of 06/30/2010

07/12/2010: August 2010 Visa Bulletin

07/12/2010: House Immigration Subcommitte Schedules a Hearing 07/14/2010 on "the Ethical Imperative for Reform of our Immigration System"

07/12/2010: Extension of Initial TPS Registration Period for Haitians Through 01/18/2011

07/10/2010: Employment-Based Piecemeal Employment-Based Immigration Reform Bill Introduced in the House on 07/01/2010

07/10/2010: USCIS Questions & Answers and Information for Salavadoran TPS Registration and EAD Processing

07/09/2010: Federal Register Notice of Salvadoran TPS and EAD Extension

07/09/2010: USCIS Administrative Appeals Office (AAO) Processing Times of July 1, 2010

07/09/2010: USCIS Proposed Fee Adjustment Rule Comment Period Ends 07/16/2010

07/08/2010: Extension of TPS Designation and Automatic Extension of EAD for Salvadorans

07/07/2010: Latest H-1B Cap Counted on 07/02/2010

07/07/2010: Increasing Number of States Adopting and Requiring E-Verify Program for Employers

07/07/2010: Biometric Visa Program Changes at Visa Posts Effective 07/08/2010

07/06/2010: H-2B Cap Count as of 07/02/2010

07/05/2010: Senate and House 2010 Published Schedules for the Rest of Year 2010

07/05/2010: Visa Number Demand Data Which State Deppartment Used in the Determination of the July 2010 Employment Preference Cut-Off Dates

07/03/2010: Full Text of S. 3544, Visa Waiver Program Standard Change Bill of Senator Mikulski

07/03/2010: Immigration Benefits and Naturalization Receipts and Processing Statistics as of 05/31/2010

07/02/2010: Obama CIR Speech and Prospect for CIR Legislation

07/02/2010: The H-2A New Web-Based Tool, 'Public Job Registry' Integrated into iCERT Portal System, Accessible Effective 07/08/2010

07/01/2010: President Obama CIR Speech Live at 10:45 a.m. White House

07/01/2010: OFLC Online Wage Data for 07/2010-06/2011 Takes Effect Today

07/01/2010: Senator Mikulski Introduces Visa Waiver Bill, S. 3544, to Improve Traveler Security

07/01/2010: New Form I-90 and Lock Box Filing, Application to Replace Permanent Resident Card

For Pre-July 1, 2010 Postings, Please Click Here.