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Immigration News Flashes - 2012   

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December 2012

December 20   Two CA Residents Charged in Document Mill Case

December 20   New USCIS Immigrant Visa Fee Effective Feb. 2013

December 20   USCIS Offers E-Verify Employer Search Tool


July 2012

August 17   CBP Announces Plans to Eliminate Form I-94

August 14   2014 Diversity Visa Program Registration Begins on October 2, 2012

August 06   DREAMERS - Last Minute USCIS Teleconference Held August 3, 2012

July 24   I HAVE A DREAM - Obama’s Deferred Action - Should the Dream become Reality for Those Not in Proceedings? Politics could get the best of this initiative

July 24   AILA Warning: New Telephonic Scam

July 23   District Court Finds Operations and Financial Analyst Not a Specialty Occupation

July 23   BALCA Finds Employer Properly Dismissed Applicants Lacking Requisite Skills

July 20   DOL Reaches Record H-2A Back Wages Settlement

July 20   DHS Issues Directive Announcing Deferred Action Process For Qualifying Youth


June 2012

June 13   E-2 Treaty Visas for Israel May Become a Reality

June 13   July 2012 Visa Bulletin

June 13   DOL Statistics for FY 2012

June 13   FY 2013 H-1B Cap Reached


May 2012

May 23   List of STEM Degree Programs Expanded

May 22   FY2013 H-1B Cap Count (Updated 5/14/12)



April 2012

April 27   Challenging H-2B Rules

April 27   U.S. Supreme Court Hears Oral Arguments on Arizona Immigration Law SB 1070

April 6   H1B Cap: First numbers reported show increase in demand

April 5   USCIS Proposes Process Change for Certain Waivers of Inadmissibility


March 2012

March 5   Embassy of the United States, China - Important Changes

March 30   USCIS to Begin Accepting H-1B Petitions for Fiscal Year 2013 on April 2, 2012


February 2012

February 28
  Visa Interview Wait Times Drop in Brazil

February 27
  U.S. Embassy Lisbon No Longer Processing Immigrant or Diversity Visas As of March 1, 2012

February 24   Entrepreneurs in Residence (EIR) Summit

February 24   New Report Reflects Incredibly High Denial Rates for L-1 and H-1B Petitions at U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services

February 24   U.S. Embassy in Damascus, Syria Suspends Operations

February 24   March 2012 Visa Bulletin

February 8   White House Announces Initiatives to Streamline Visitor Visa Process for Some, Increase Tourism to the U.S.


January 2012

January 27   PERM Statistics for Q1 FY2012

January 23
  USCIS Extends TPS for Salvadorans

January 23
  February 2012 Visa Bulletin

January 12   EB-5 News: Message from USCIS Director Alejandro Mayorkas