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Travel Alert for Advance Parole Applicants
Foreign nationals with pending advance parole applications are facing new restrictions on their freedom to travel internationally. Advance parole allows those who have filed I-485 Adjustment of Status applications (also known as green card applications) to travel abroad during the...
Supreme Court Ruling Allows More Immigrants to File for Cancellation of Removal
On June 21, 2018, the Supreme Court ruled in an 8-1 decision that a Notice to Appear (the charging document given to immigrants in removal proceedings) that does not contain a time or place for a removal hearing will not...
Support Immigrant Children Separated from Their Parents – Ways You Can Help
Learn the FACTS: What Law is Family Separation Based On? There is no federal law that stipulates that children and parents be separated at the border, no matter how families entered the United States. Family separation is a direct result...
Partner Beata Leja Joins Board of Directors for Young Center for Immigrant Children’s Rights
Minsky, McCormick & Hallagan, P.C. is proud to announce that partner Beata Leja has joined the Board of Directors of the Young Center for Immigrant Children’s Rights, a national human rights organization that advocates for the rights and best interests...
DHS to Terminate Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Nepal
On April 26, 2018, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced that it will terminate Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Nepal, now the fifth country to recently lose its protected status. The termination will go into effect on June 24,...
April 11, 2018
Hon. Robert Vinikoor (Ret.)
Take it from a former judge: Quotas for Immigration Judges are a Bad Idea.
On March 30th, the U.S. Department of Justice and Attorney General Sessions announced that Immigration Judges will now be subject to case completion quotas. This unprecedented change will be effective October 1, 2018, and starting then, immigration judges will be...
USCIS No Longer Accepting Cap-Subject H-1B Lottery Petitions for FY 2019
As of today, April 6, 2018, USCIS will no longer be accepting new, cap-subject H-1B petitions in its randomized lottery for Fiscal Year (FY) 2019. USCIS will now conduct the lottery and begin to send receipt notices and rejections over...
USCIS Suspending Premium Processing for Cap-Subject H-1B Petitions Until September 10, 2018
On March 20, 2018, the U.S. Citizenship & Immigration Services (USCIS) announced that it will temporarily suspend premium processing for H-1B petitions filed toward this year’s annual cap, the Fiscal Year 2019 cap. This means that all cap-subject H-1B petitions...
