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  News: USCIS Expands Credit Card Payment Pilot Program to Texas Service Center

  • Published: 09-17-2021, 06:31 AM
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  News: USCIS Expands Credit Card Payment Pilot Program to Texas Service Center

  USCIS Expands Credit Card Payment Pilot Program to Texas Service Center As part of our credit card payment pilot program, the Texas Service Center is now accepting credit card payments using Form G-1450, Authorization for Credit Card Transactions, for petitioners filing Form I-140, Immigrant Petition for Alien Workers, with Form I-907, Request for Premium Processing Service, or when filing Form I-907 to upgrade a pending Form I-140 to premium processing. At the end of the pilot, we wil...

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  News: EOIR Provides Information on Model Hearing Program

  • Published: 09-16-2021, 08:53 AM
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  News: EOIR Provides Information on Model Hearing Program

  MODEL HEARING PROGRAM The Model Hearing Program (MHP) is an educational program designed to provide Government attorneys, private attorneys, and potential or newly-accredited representatives with information about practices and procedures related to advocacy in immigration court. The program provides substantive and practical immigration court training. This endeavor is part of EOIR’s ongoing commitment to improving the quality of representation before the immigration courts in an effort to ...

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  News: USCIS announces requirement for COVID-19 Vaccination for Immigration Medical Examinations

  • Published: 09-15-2021, 06:07 AM
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  News: USCIS announces requirement for COVID-19 Vaccination for Immigration Medical Examinations

  COVID-19 Vaccination Required for Immigration Medical Examinations Release Date  09/14/2021 U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services today announced that, effective Oct. 1, 2021, applicants subject to the immigration medical examination must be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 before the civil surgeon can complete an immigration medical examination and sign Form I-693, Report of Medical Examination and Vaccination Record. We are updating our policy guidance in accordance with the Centers fo...

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  News: DHS issues Statement on Safety and Immigration Enforcement During Tropical Storm Nicholas

  • Published: 09-14-2021, 05:56 AM
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  News: DHS issues Statement on Safety and Immigration Enforcement During Tropical Storm Nicholas

  DHS Statement on Safety and Immigration Enforcement During Tropical Storm Nicholas The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is closely monitoring the potential impact of Tropical Storm Nicholas. Our highest priority remains the preservation of life and safety. Absent exceptional circumstances, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP) will not conduct immigration enforcement at locations where disaster and emergency relief related to this storm is being ...

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  News: USCIS and DHS Issues Notice of Continuation of Documentation for Beneficiaries of Temporary Protected Status Designations for El Salvador, Haiti, Nicaragua, Sudan, Honduras, and Nepal

  • Published: 09-13-2021, 06:50 AM
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  News: USCIS and DHS Issues Notice of Continuation of Documentation for Beneficiaries of Temporary Protected Status Designations for El Salvador, Haiti, Nicaragua, Sudan, Honduras, and Nepal

  [Federal Register Volume 86, Number 173 (Friday, September 10, 2021)] [Notices] [Pages 50725-50733] From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov] [FR Doc No: 2021-19617] ----------------------------------------------------------------------- DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services [CIS No. 2676-21; DHS Docket No. USCIS-2019-0020] RIN 1615-ZB83 Continuation of Documentation for Beneficiaries of Temporary Protected Status Desi...

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  News : DHS Continues Temporary Protected Status Designations for El Salvador, Haiti, Honduras, Nepal, Nicaragua and Sudan

  • Published: 09-10-2021, 09:58 AM
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  News : DHS Continues Temporary Protected Status Designations for El Salvador, Haiti, Honduras, Nepal, Nicaragua and Sudan

  DHS Continues Temporary Protected Status Designations for El Salvador, Haiti, Honduras, Nepal, Nicaragua and Sudan Release Date  09/09/2021 WASHINGTON—The Department of Homeland Security has announced the automatic extension of TPS designations for El Salvador, Haiti, Honduras, Nepal, Nicaragua, and Sudan. TPS beneficiaries from these six countries will retain their status, provided they continue to meet all the individual requirements for TPS eligibility. The automatic extension of TP...

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  News : USCIS Hosting Listening Session on Public Charge Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking

  • Published: 09-09-2021, 07:52 AM
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  News : USCIS Hosting Listening Session on Public Charge Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking

  USCIS Virtual Listening Session on Public Charge Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) invites you to participate in a virtual listening session on Public Charge. During the sessions, we will ask for your feedback on the public charge ground of inadmissibility. On September 14 at 2 pm Eastern we will host a session for the general public. On October 5 at 2 pm Easternwe will host a session open to state, territorial, local, a...

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  News: CRS Report on Noncitizen Eligibility for Medicaid and CHIP

  • Published: 09-08-2021, 10:34 AM
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  News: CRS Report on Noncitizen Eligibility for Medicaid and CHIP

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  News : USCIS Extends Evidence of Status for Conditional Permanent Residents to 24 Months with Pending Form I-751 or Form I-829

  • Published: 09-07-2021, 07:15 AM
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  News : USCIS Extends Evidence of Status for Conditional Permanent Residents to 24 Months with Pending Form I-751 or Form I-829

  USCIS Extends Evidence of Status for Conditional Permanent Residents to 24 Months with Pending Form I-751 or Form I-829 Release Date  09/03/2021 Starting Sept. 4, 2021, USCIS is extending the time that receipt notices can be used to show evidence of status from 18 months to 24 months for petitioners who properly file Form I-751, Petition to Remove Conditions on Residence, or Form I-829, Petition by Investor to Remove Conditions on Permanent Resident Status. We are making the change...

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  News : DHS Extends Flexibility in Requirements Related to Form I-9 Compliance

  • Published: 09-03-2021, 09:56 AM
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  News : DHS Extends Flexibility in Requirements Related to Form I-9 Compliance

  DHS Extends Form I-9 Requirement Flexibility (Effective September 1, 2021) The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) announced an extension of the flexibility in complying with requirements related to Form I-9, Employment Eligibility Verification, due to COVID-19. This temporary guidance was set to expire August 31, 2021. Because of ongoing precautions related to COVID-19, DHS has extended the Form I-9 flexibility policy until December 31, 2021....

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