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23 May 2008

Misprinted I-94 Cards Issued by CBP

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...

16:10 / Citizen / Employment Based / Homeland Security / NewsBrief / Other Work Statuses / Student / Travel / USCIS News / Visitor / Worker
16 May 2008

USCIS Responds to Liaison Questions Regarding H1B, I-551and N-400

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...

16:21 / Citizen / Employment Based / For Employers / H1B / NewsBrief / Other Work Statuses / Physicians
02 May 2008

Possible Multi-Year EAD/AP, I-94 Corrections, and Anticipated AC21 Regulations

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)...

16:21 / Citizen / Compliance / Employment Based / H1B / L-1 / NewsBrief / Travel
14 Mar 2008

EB5 Investor Must Satisfy All Legal Requirements

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...

15:59 / EB5 Investor / For Employers / NewsBrief
19 Oct 2007

Updates on July and August 2007 AOS / I-485 Filings

The USCIS provided some updated information on the many July and August I-485 Application for Adjustment of Status (AOS) filings, at an AILA conference held in late September 2007 at Lake Tahoe, Nevada. This information should prove useful to many MurthyDotCom and MurthyBulletin readers who...

16:45 / AOS/CP / H1B / L-1 / NewsBrief