#USCIS

Some @MigrationPolicy analysis ahead of what's likely to be a blockbuster @USCIS hearing today...- At the end of FY 2017, USCIS had $790 in cash reserves- In November 2019, USCIS
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NAFSA continues to engage with @DHSgov and members of Congress on the severe #f1optlockboxdelay impacting #intlstudents and to push @USCIS to announce solutions ASAP. Retweet the following recommendations to show
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The Top 10: What can a President Biden fix on January 21, 2021 (let's give him one day to celebrate):1. Undo all of the travel bans affecting millions of Americans
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Donald Trump has set a historically low limit on the number of refugees the US can admit in 2021:15,000.But it’s not all about the ceiling. Stephen Miller & co. have
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This is a thread about one big logistical issue faced by all international students in the US. Terminology first: EAD = employment authorization document i.e., a $410 piece of plastic
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USCIS releases the details of its self-hostaging plan:"Hey Congress, give us $1.2 billion before Aug 3 or we'll furlough >13,000 federal employees in the middle of an economic crisis. We'll
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How the Trump administration is turning legal immigrants into undocumented ones -- by, uhh, literally turning off the printers that print the documentshttps://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/how-the-trump-administration-is-turning-legal-imm
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Surprise! The Trump admin just released a new civics test that all aspiring US citizens must pass if applying after Dec 1.Quoth DHS: "offering a fair test...is of upmost [sic]
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Emergency room nurse Azra Nazir sued the Trump admin to get decision on her citizenship that took 2yrs instead of 4 months max under law. She waited 20yrs to take
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I've gone through the 185 page new H-1B rule changing the H-1B lottery to one that's wage based (though still a lottery of sorts). 1 The rule is final but
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“Middlename” field left blank because you don't have a middlename? No address for your dad b/c he's dead?No siblings listed because you’re an only child? Sorry, your immigration applications have
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This Nidhi Razdan+Harvard thing is weird. From all indications it seems like she did go to Boston last year in preparation for her new job. This throw up some questions.For
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USCIS has released a new version of the naturalization civics test. There are 128 questions total, of which 20 will be asked. Candidates must answer 12 of these 20 correctly.https://www.uscis.gov/citizenship-resource-center/the-2020-version
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Earlier this year I wrote about visa applications getting rejected for having inapplicable blanks on them. Thanks to a newly resolved FOIA suit, we now have a better sense of
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One of the many hate accounts on Somali twitter is @Hawdka who spits vitriol against Somali clans from north to south. The man behind this burner is taleexi a Dhulmahante
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My new piece - The Biden Administration Needs to Add Digital Modernization into Its Immigration Plans https://thinkimmigration.org/blog/2020/11/17/the-biden-administration-needs-to-add-digital-modernization-into-its-immigration-plans/ "
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