News & Updates

15 October 2009
USCIS Posts Filing Location Changes for Orphan/Adoption Petitions
Last week, USCIS announced a change in filing locations for two sets of forms. The first set, For...
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14 October 2009
President Obama Publishes FY 2010 Refugee Numbers
In a Presidential Document, written on the last day of September of this year and published in th...
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09 October 2009
USCIS Introduces E-Notification of Application Acceptance
On June 25, 2009, President Obama announced that in the next 9 days, USCIS intended to launch an ...
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07 October 2009
Nebraska Now Requires Public Employers to Use E-Verify to Determine Employee Eligibility
Earlier this year, Nebraska Governor Dave Heineman signed into law a bill that would require publ...
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02 October 2009
USCIS Posts Update of the Amount of H-1B Petitions Received
USCIS has posted an update of the amount of H-1B petitions the federal agency has received. As of...
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30 September 2009
DV-2011 Registration Period Begins October 2
The online registration period for entering the 2011 Diversity Visa lottery begins at noon, Easte...
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25 September 2009
USCIS May Increase Fees for Immigration Services
Earlier this week, on a visit to Los Angeles, Alejandro Mayorkas, the new Director of USCIS, stat...
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23 September 2009
U.S. Government Launches New Web-Based Immigration Alert System for Applicants
Yesterday, the U.S. government started a new web-based program that lets immigration applicants c...
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19 September 2009
Federal Funds to Aid Organizations Will Help Immigrants Become Citizens
A number of resource organizations for immigrants has just received $1.2 million dollars in feder...
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