The U.S. Department of State recently released its Visa Bulletin for August 2017. That’s a big deal if you’re waiting for your priority date to be current so that your green card application can move forward.If you don’t know what… View Article
It’s time for the Office of the Citizenship and Immigration Services Ombudsman’s 2017 Annual Report to Congress! We read the whole report so you can enjoy this blog-length summary instead…Wait, What’s an Ombudsman?An ombudsman serves as an independent advocate for… View Article
During the early years of the United States, the primary concern around immigration largely dealt with how the fledgling country could draw more immigrants. Thomas Jefferson wrote that “the present desire of America is to produce rapid population by as… View Article
Esta semana, el Servicio de Ciudadanía e Inmigración de los Estados Unidos (United States Citizenship and Immigration Services, USCIS) anunció que de ahora en adelante, comenzará a aceptar pagos por tarjeta de crédito para casi todas las cuotas gubernamentales requeridas… View Article
This may not have made headlines, but recently a redesigned green card application form was released by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS). Simply put, this is the form used by someone already present in the United States to apply… View Article
The Roaring 20s may conjure up cosmopolitain images of flappers, speakeasies, art deco and jazz, but the 1920s were also a period of significant changes to U.S. immigration policy that would have repercussions for decades.The Immigration Act of 1924 (also… View Article
Cuban refugees near Key West during the 1980 Mariel BoatliftBetween 1947 and 1991, U.S. immigration policy was shaped by the larger Cold War. In many case special allowances were made for migrants coming from Communist countries. In 1956, President Dwight… View Article
During the 1960s, the foreign-born percentage of the U.S. population hit its lowest levels, hovering around just five percent, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. Still, the decade would lay the seeds of a lasting change in the nature of… View Article
Women make up just over half of the world’s population, but according to the Pew Research Center, they account for a slight minority of migrants worldwide. The situation is much more equal than it used to be: in 1984 women… View Article
June was a blockbuster month for high-profile immigration developments. The Supreme Court made two announcements that could have a major impact on many people’s lives. Yet even those announcements were full of ambiguity—neither was a final decision on a case,… View Article
