During the second session of myLawCLE’s Surviving the New USCIS webinar series, Kate Kalmykov and Lauren Berkowitz will discuss strategies for responding to RFEs, addressing adjudication delays, and managing employment-based immigration cases under increased agency scrutiny.
The Dutch House of Representatives has approved legislation that would give the ACM authority to review certain transactions that fall below the Netherlands’ existing merger control thresholds.
Continue Reading Court Postpones DHS Fixed-Term Admission Rule for F, J, and I Nonimmigrants
Recent legislative, regulatory, and litigation developments have affected TPS-related employment authorization, including changes to EAD validity periods and automatic extensions.
On Aug. 5, 2026, DOS announced the Immigrant Visa Public Charge Bond Pilot Program, which allows consular officers to invite certain immigrant visa applicants found inadmissible on public charge grounds to post a bond as a condition of visa issuance.
Continue Reading A Second Visa Bond, Aimed at Immigrants: DOS Launches a Public Charge Bond Pilot Beginning in the Dominican Republic
We are now seeing RFEs issued under the new USCIS guidance that provide 30 days to respond, rather than the 84-day response period practitioners have commonly received in cases.
USCIS may deny an immigration benefit request as abandoned when an applicant fails to appear for a required biometrics appointment.
Continue Reading Missed Biometrics Appointments May Result in USCIS Denial of Immigration Applications
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services has issued an interim final rule establishing a framework under which the agency may require certain immigration benefit requests to be filed electronically.
Continue Reading USCIS Establishes Framework for Mandatory Electronic Filing: What Employers and Foreign Nationals Should Know
USCIS has updated its policy guidance regarding eligibility evidence and adjudication of immigration benefit requests.
Continue Reading USCIS Raises the Stakes: Incomplete Immigration Filings May Face Immediate Denial
The landscape for Temporary Protected Status (TPS) and humanitarian parole continues to change rapidly, creating uncertainty for hundreds of thousands of foreign nationals and posing significant compliance challenges for U.S. employers.
The First Circuit denied the government’s request to stay a district court order blocking the proposed $100,000 H-1B filing fee.
Continue Reading First Circuit Keeps Block on H-1B $100,000 Fee: What Employers Should Know