DOL provided Litwin & Smith a practice alert about delivery delays of up to three weeks for certified PERMs. DOL confirmed with Litwin & Smith on 10/24/17 that this issue is resolved and, though there are residual delays, PERM cases certified 10/24/17 or later...
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Month: October 2017
DOL Practice Alert: Reports of Delayed Delivery of Certain Certified PERM Applications
http://www.aila.org/infonet/reports-delayed-delivery-certified-perm-apps AILA's DOL Liaison Committees provides a practice alert about delivery delays of up to three weeks for certified PERMs. DOL confirmed on 10/24/17 that this issue is resolved and, though there are...
‘Trump Immigration Principles & Policy Statement’
On Oct. 8, 2017, the White House released the promised https://www.whitehouse.gov/ make it a link named 'Trump Immigration Principles & Policy Statement' which outline the Trump Administration's position on immigration. This document is broken into three parts: 1)...
Practice Alert: Two Nationwide TROs Enjoin the Majority of Trump’s Travel Ban 3.0
Practice Alert: Two Nationwide TROs Enjoin the Majority of Trump's Travel Ban 3.0 U.S. District Court Judge Derrick K. Watson in Hawaii blocked the Trump administration from implementing the majority of the latest version of the president's controversial Travel Ban...
2017 November Visa Bulletin Posted
2017 November Visa Bulletin DOS published the 2017 November Visa Bulletin. IT includes both a Dates for Filing Visa Applications Chart and an Application Final Action Dates Chart, as well as notes on the Diversity Immigrant (DV) category and the Special Immigrant (SI)...
2019 Diversity Visa Lottery Restarts 10/18/2017
2019 Diversity Visa Lottery Restarts October 18, 2017https://www.dvlottery.state.gov/Due to a technical issue, the DV-2019 entry period that began on October 3 has been closed. Entries submitted during October 3-10 are not valid and have been excluded from the system;...
Obtain a Work Authorization Document and Social Security Number Simultaneously
New USCIS Form Streamlines Process to Obtain a Work Authorization Document and Social Security Number Simultaneously On October 2, 2017 based on a new information-sharing partnership between U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) and the Social Security...
State Department to Reserve Unused DV numbers for Travel Ban Countries
Court Ordered State Department to Reserve Unused Diversity Visa Numbers for Travel Ban CountriesSeptember 29, 2017, the court in P.K. v. Tillerson (D.D.C.), filed on August 3, challenging the State Department's policy of denying immigrant visas to winners of the...

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