Yu, South & Associates just learned that the Newark, New Jersey police department is no longer taking orders from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to detain undocumented immigrants who have been picked up for minor criminal offenses such as shoplifting or vandalism.
In recent weeks, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) learned of a new telephone scam targeting USCIS applicants and petitioners.
For the first time since 2008, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has reached the statutory H-1B cap of 65,000 for fiscal year (FY) 2014 within the first week of the filing period.
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) today announced charges and an asset freeze against an individual living in Illinois and two companies behind an investment scheme defrauding foreign investors seeking profitable returns and a legal path to U.S. residency through a federal visa program.
US Ambassador to China Gary Locke just announced in Beijing that starting March 16, 2013, the US Embassy in China will activate its online appointment reservation service to the Chinese citizens for the very first time. At the present time, US visa applicants in China can only make such appointment reservation through telephone, and this new change is expected to make the appointment reservation streamlined in an automated way and help to improve the efficiency of the scheduling and visa processing.
