Executive Action: Employment Based Immigration The President has directed the Secretaries of DHS & DOS to submit recommendations by March 20, 2015. In the meantime, the DHS Secretary Johnson has issued a Memorandum outlining the following new policies: Reduce wait times for employment-based visas and improve visa processing Visas have gone unused due to processing issues.…
Executive Action: H-4 Employment Authorization President Obama announced that employment authorization would be given to certain H-4 dependent spouses. USCIS first proposed Federal rule on May 12, 2014 allowing for employment authorization of H-4 dependent spouses. The public comment period on that rule was held until July 11, 2014. Immigration advocates, including the American Immigration…
Executive Action: Undocumented Immigrants & Deferred Action There are approximately 11 million immigrants in the U.S. who have either entered the US without advance permission or entered with permission and overstayed their visas, and are therefore “unlawfully” in the U.S. These people are referred to by the immigrant advocacy community as “Undocumented Immigrants.” They are…