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COVID-19

Coronavirus Update: USCIS Temporarily Closes Offices in Rome and Nairobi to the Public

USCIS has announced on March 25, 2020 that it has temporarily closed its offices in Rome, Italy and Nairobi, Kenya to the public due to the COVID-19 pandemic. This follows the March 12 announcement that the U.S. embassies were closed…

Jenny ZhanMarch 25, 2020

Family Immigration Immigration

USCIS to Decrease Wait Times for Green Card and Naturalization Wait Times

USCIS have announced that they have plans to reassign some green card and naturalization cases from local field offices with long backlogs to those with fewer cases. Procedurally, USCIS has a number of main field offices around the country that…

Jenny ZhanJune 19, 2019

Family Immigration Immigration

USCIS to Close International Immigration Offices

Politico.com reported on March 12 that USCIS had plans to close all international field offices. The agency is currently in preliminary discussions to transfer the workload of the international offices to the domestic offices and the State Department. The reasoning…

Jenny ZhanMarch 18, 2019

Immigration News

USCIS to Close Moscow Field Office

Due to low workload, USCIS will permanently close the Moscow field office on March 29, 2019. The last day the field office will accept applications is on February 28, 2019. The USCIS field office in Athens, Greece, will assume jurisdiction…

Jenny ZhanFebruary 5, 2019

Approvals

Green Card approval for an Employee of a Large Financial Institution at the New York USCIS Field Office for a National of Germany

We just had a green card approval for an employee of a large company. The applicant was sponsored for a green card by their U.S. employer and the applicant and their family were granted green cards after an interview at the New…

Jenny ZhanJuly 9, 2018

H-1B and E-3 Visa Immigration

I am Applying for my Green Card through an Employer. How Should I Prepare for my Green Card Interview?

On March 6, 2017, President Trump signed Executive Order 12780, which, among other things, called for the implementation of standardized vetting procedures for immigration benefits, including in-person interviews. Based on this Executive Order, U.S. Citizenship & Immigration Services (“USCIS”) now…

Jenny ZhanJuly 5, 2018