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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 residual delays, cases certified 10/24/17 or later should be received within standard timelines. AILA Doc. No. 17101104

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‘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) Border Security, 2) Interior Enforcement, and 3) Merit-Based Immigration. “The current immigration system prioritizes extended family based chain migration over skills-based immigration

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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 3.0, hours before it was due to take effect. Today, Politico reported that U.S. District Court Judge Theodore Chuang in

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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) Translator category. For adjustment of status filing dates during November 2017, USCIS advises that the Dates for

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2019 Diversity Visa Lottery Restarts 10/18/2017

2019 Diversity Visa Lottery Restarts October 18, 2017 https://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; they will not count as a duplicate entry. The technical issue has been resolved and a new full entry

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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 Administration (SSA), foreign nationals in certain categories or classifications can now apply for work authorization and a social security number using a single

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State Department to Reserve Unused DV numbers for Travel Ban Countries

Court Ordered State Department to Reserve Unused Diversity Visa Numbers for Travel Ban Countries September 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 diversity lottery-where those winners are nationals of countries affected by the travel ban. Granted alternative relief the plaintiffs sought:

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