This practice pointer will help immigration legal service providers (ILSPs) prepare for this change by detailing how to make electronic payments and warning of the pitfalls that can lead to USCIS rejecting an application for lack of payment. For ILSPs that may wish to make payment on behalf of clients for their ease and to ensure payments are not rejected, this practice pointer provides an overview of how ILSPs can ensure compliance with relevant ethical rules regarding holding client funds.

This resource highlights the key policy changes and implications for impacted SIJ youth and practitioners seeking to advocate on their behalf.

This resource summarizes DHS, DOS, and OMB memos and actions issued since the change in administration that have specific, immediate, and direct impact on the work of LSPs and their clients.

The one-page flyer provides information about the upcoming fee increase and changes to fee waiver for the N-400 naturalization application. This resource is intended to assist you as you counsel naturalization applicants and suggest best time to file their applications with USCIS.

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, or USCIS, is requesting a $1.2 billion bailout from Congress, saying that without it, they will drastically cut services and furlough 13,400 public servants. USCIS, which processes immigration and naturalization applications, is funded primarily by the fees it charges customers – immigrants, their families and employers. Other federal agencies are funded by taxpayer dollars.

USCIS has issued new guidance on submission of medical examinations (Form I-693), effective November 1, 2018. Under the new guidance, medical examinations submitted on or after November 1, 2018 must have been signed by the civil surgeon within 60 days of submission. Once submitted, they will be valid for two years from the date of civil surgeon signature. 

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services’ new policy allows adjudicators to deny an application or petition without issuing a Request for Evidence or Notice of Intent to Deny. Read more to see what this could mean for your clients.

Beginning September 12, 2018, applications and petitions filed with the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) will be subject to the agency’s new policy allowing a denial without first issuing a Request for Evidence (RFE) or Notice of Intent to Deny (NOID).

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U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services redesigned the Permanent Resident Card, also known as a Green Card, and the Employment Authorization Document, or EAD, as part of their Next Generation Secure Identification Document Project. USCIS began issuing these new cards in May 2017.

Calling USCIS’s National Customer Service Center (NCSC) can be time consuming. Here are some tips on making your communications with the NCSC more productive.