Washington, D.C. – August 2, 2019: USCIS issued a policy memo designating the case of Matter of H-G-G (AAO July 31, 2019) as a binding decision on U.S. immigration officers. In Matter of H-G-G, the USCIS Administrative Appeals Office held “For purposes of adjustment of...

Washington, D.C. – July 30, 2019: USCIS recently updated the following USCIS form(s): Update to Form I-693, Report of Medical Examination and Vaccination Record; New Edition Dated 07/15/19 Update to Form I-693, Report of Medical Examination and Vaccination Record; New Edition Dated 07/15/19. Starting 09/23/19, USCIS will...

July 30, 2019 Donoso & Associates summarizes below the 10 most frequent and most important questions EB-5 investors have about the new EB-5 Regulations published by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) as a Final Rule on July 24, 2019: 1. When do the new EB-5 rules...

Washington D.C., - July 17, 2019: The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) recently completed its review of draft of new regulations for the EB-5 Regional Center program, entitled EB-5 Immigrant Investor Program Modernization (“EB-5 Modernization Regulation”). As with any proposed new regulations, OMB’s review is...

As the Department of State (DOS) indicated last month, the August visa bulletin introduced broad delays across almost all employment-based categories worldwide, with EB-2’s earliest cut-off date set to Jan. 2017, and EB-1 and EB-3 pushed back to July 2016. These retrogressions are expected to...

Washington, D.C. – July 10, 2019: Today, the U.S. House of Representatives passed the Fairness for High-Skilled Immigrants Act of 2019 (H.R. 1044) by a vote of 365 to 65. If enacted, the Fairness for High-Skilled Immigrants Act would eliminate the per-country limit for all...