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September 30

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Tags: Fees, H1B, USCIS
Date: September 30, 2020
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BREAKING: Judge Blocks USCIS Fee Increases

On Tuesday, a federal judge in California granted a preliminary injunction, preventing USCIS from increasing filing fees that were scheduled to go into effect on Friday, October 2, 2020. This means that as long as the injunction is in place, USCIS fees will stay the same as they are now and not incr...

August 21

Posted By: HSD immigration
Posted In: Scott Girard
Date: August 21, 2020
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BY THE NUMBERS: USCIS FURLOUGHS WILL RESULT IN MASSIVE CASE PROCESSING DELAYS AND BACKLOGS

In about one week, USCIS plans to furlough roughly 13,400 of its 20,000 employees due to “budget shortfalls.” This is more than two-thirds, or 67%, of its workforce. The furloughs appear to be agency-wide, meaning no office or service center will be spared. The effects of the furloughs would gri...

July 24

Posted By: HSD immigration
Posted In: Scott Girard
Tags: asylum, BIA, Board of Immigration Appeals, immigration court, kansas city
Date: July 24, 2020
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Three-Member BIA Panel Says IJ Must Determine Citizenship for Asylum

Appeals to the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) may seem increasingly futile due to changes by the current administration, but they are necessary and sometimes fruitful. This is especially true for pro se clients. In a recent three-member panel unpublished decision, the BIA held that judges must m...