The COVID-19 pandemic has really hit a lot of people hard on immigration. Citizens who were born in the United States and have reached the age of 21 are most likely to be students when they apply for a green card for their parents, so they are often not eligible for financial sponsor. So, in many cases, people receive support through a joint-sponsor, but people usually first look for a joint-spo..

What should we pay attention to when filling out an immigration application? In fact, no question or content in the application is unimportant. However, if we make a typo, omit the content, or write and submit with completely different information, there is a very high probability that it will be denied. Also, even if approved, the result things such as Lawful Permanent Resident Card (Green Card..

Announcement: 03/02/2023 The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service (USCIS) has updated its policy to remove On-Site-Inspection to the religious organization, which has been mandatory for religious visa status (R-1) review. However, in order to confirm compliance with the provisions of the immigration law, it was decided to randomly select and conduct on-site inspections if necessary. The USCI..

One of the most common questions we hear from clients while filing immigration cases is whether the USCIS can access my bank account. It's a big deal. A bank account is my personal information. Even government agencies cannot access personal information without permission from the owner. However, it is said that personal information can only be accessed when an investigative agency such as the F..

As people live, the history of life increases one by one as the years go by. So, as the time spent living illegally in the United States increases, when applying for adjust status, people often see various records piled up that become obstacles. This is the case of an illegal immigrant mother of a US citizen daughter who was born in the United States and just turned 21. Two issues arose in this ..

Announcement: 04/19/2023 U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services extended the exemption from Biometrics for some visa status categories using Form I-539 until September 30 of this year. The USCIS has conducted biometrics as a necessity for non-immigrant cases using I-539 for Change of Status or Extension of Status in the United States. Since the fingerprint inquiry was temporarily suspended fo..

Due to the drastic changes in employment-based immigration, there are surprisingly many cases where joys and sorrows have been mixed. The cut-off date on the visa bulletin is not arbitrarily determined by the US Department of State or USCIS anyway. It is not the government that moves the visa bulletin, but immigrant applicants, as it is determined based on the statistics of receipt of immigrant ..

What type of nonimmigrant status can an applicant apply for employment-based immigration? Of course, this question is stupid. The question itself is wrong. This question stems from the idea that only non-immigrant visa holders who can work, such as a working visa (H-1B), can do employment immigration. In fact, most non-immigrant statuses can apply for an employment-based immigration green card. ..

Announcement Date: 04/13/2023 President Biden announced plans to expand health insurance benefits to DACA recipients and announced that he would propose amendments to the bill to Congress within this month through the federal Department of Health and Human Services. In order for DACA youth to receive health insurance benefits, the definition of 'Lawful Presence' under the Affordable Care Act nee..

It took 3 years and 7 months for a US citizen spouse to apply for green card. The applicant was in the process of obtaining permanent residency as an employment-based immigration case through a lawyer's office before meeting his citizenship spouse. However, even after about two years of filing the I-485, no conclusion has been reached. It took well over 3 years in total, including the time to pr..

The USCIS may send an RFE. If we thoroughly prepare, answer, and get approval, that's it. We weren't scared when Intent to Deny came, even if it was sometimes. We just have to convince the immigration officer by providing documents and explanations to overcome the reason for the denial. But the scariest thing is when the USCIS loses contact. No matter how many times we contact each other, we alw..

The applicant's parents started employment based immigration with the 245 (i) amnesty in 2001 and received permanent residency in 2010. However, at the time of parents' adjust status application, the applicant who has exceeded the age of 21 under the immigration law and has become aged-out cannot apply for permanent residency as an accompanying family member. Upon approval of parents' permanent ..

In this case, two significant issues were discovered. First, despite the case of a spouse of a citizen, the interview was omitted without precedent. Second, the fact that joint documents that are usually brought to the interview have been replaced with RFE. In fact, this case was processed really quickly. Looking at the trend these days, it takes at least 10 months for a citizen's spouse case, b..

The USCIS's unknown adjust status review that we can't understand where the doubt came from. A spouse of US citizen case that took 2 years and 4 months. Those who have not experienced it will not know the feelings of the applicant's family, who must have been burned black for more than two years. At first, the case seemed to be going smoothly. It took less than a month from application to ASC bi..

Announcement: 03/31/2023 The regulation that only accepts a medical examination certificate (I-693) signed by a doctor within 60 days before the application for adjust status (I-485) was removed from today (March 31). On November 1, 2018, USCIS introduced the 60-day rule to sign by a civil surgean to enhance operational efficiencies and reduce the need to request an updated form I-693 from appli..

USCIS announced today that it will move applications accepted by courier service (FedEx, UPS, DHL, etc.) from Phoenix to Tempe, Arizona. Applications received regularly, such as USPS (Post Office), will continue to be received at the Phoenix Lockbox address as before. The USCIS said that until April 28, cases received through the courier service coming to the existing Phoenix address will be for..

The Federal USCIS has updated the guidelines to recognize cases filed on time if the deadline for mailed applications and RFE responses is a holiday and arrives by the next business day. In the case of an application whose validity is recognized based on the age of the applicant, if the date of birth is a holiday, an application that arrives by the next business day will be considered a case rec..

The USCIS announced on March 27 that as a result of pre-registration for the 2024 H-1B, cases exceeding the visa quota (Cap) were received, and the winners were selected through a lottery. The USCIS also said it had notified the prospective employer of the lottery results. The winning case is updated to Selected in the applicant's pre-registration in the employer's USCIS online account, and if i..

The applicant, who was dispatched as an E-2 employee to the US corporation of the home country headquarters, decided to immigrate to the US after living in the US for 2 years. He starts an employment-based immigration process through the company that offered job opportunity, thinking that it is more advantageous to proceed with his spouse's employment immigration than his own situation as an E-2..

The religious immigration petition (I-360) went through an unprecedentedly fast process, and it was a lucky (?) case that even a child who was almost aged-out at the age of 21 received permanent residency. Over the past decade, religious immigration (EB-4) has been a case of avoidance in the immigration field due to the USCIS's difficult procedures. Recently, however, the USCIS process for the r..

A case of a pastor who was stranded at the airport after going to Vietnam for missionary work while waiting for approval after applying for R-1 Exension of Status in the United States. The applicant left the U.S. and headed for Vietnam without paying attention to the expiry date as the R-1 Relious Visa period. On the day the pastor returned to the United States, he found out at the airport that ..