The Administrative Appeals Office (AAO) released a decision upholding the denial of an EB1 (extraordinary ability) petition in which the employer failed to demonstrate that the sponsored foreign national had extraordinary ability in a particular field. (Please note that the extraordinary ability petition is exempt...
Misprinted I-94 cards, used by Customs and Border Protection (CBP) in early 2008, are causing problems with Social Security number issuance. According to the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA), CBP received approximately one million I-94 arrival-departure cards that were missing the first digit. They utilized...
The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) responded to questions regarding green card renewals, expediting N-400 applications, and I-551 (temporary evidence of permanent resident status) stamps during the April 2008 National Stakeholder Meeting. Clarification on these matters is provided here for the benefit of MurthyDotCom...
The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) responded to questions regarding green card renewals, expediting N-400 applications, and I-551 (temporary evidence of permanent resident status) stamps during the April 2008 National Stakeholder Meeting. Clarification on these matters is provided here for the benefit of MurthyDotCom...
The USCIS responded to questions posed by the American Immigration Lawyers Association's liaison committee and released information in April 2008 regarding a number of matters relevant to MurthyDotCom and MurthyBulletin readers. These include consideration of a multi-year Employment Authorization Document (EAD) and Advance Parole (AP)...
With the backlog in processing employment-based second and third preference cases (EB2 and EB3, respectively), particularly for nationals of India and China, other options like the employment-based first preference (EB1), employment-based fourth preference (EB4) and the employment-based fifth preference (EB5), all become more important for...
Information on the topic of immigrant petitions in the employment-based first preference (EB1) and the National Interest Waiver (NIW), employment-based second preference (EB2), categories has been provided for MurthyDotCom and MurthyBulletin readers in a series of articles and Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs). A number of...
The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) held a stakeholder meeting on January 29, 2008, the details of which were released recently. Questions were answered on receipting frontlogs and case backlogs, processing times, special circumstances in naturalization cases, religious worker cases, and other immigration matters....
The Administrative Appeals Office (AAO) recently dismissed the appeal of a petition for a Special Immigrant Religious Worker, finding that the beneficiary could not demonstrate that she had two years of paid employment prior to filing the petition. The AAO denied the petition for employment...
The Administrative Appeals Office (AAO), in a non-precedent case, upheld the denial of an I-140 petition for the multinational executive / manager of a restaurant, noting that a recitation of the beneficiary's vague and broadly-cast job responsibilities was insufficient to establish that she would be...
