Yu, South & Associates learned through American Immigration Lawyers' Association (AILA) that the USCIS has just announced that the adjudication of the requests for Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) has started and the first batch of such approvals are forthcoming in the next few days!
This special “Deferred Action For Childhood Arrivals” immigration program what Texas Gov. Rick Perry called a “slap in the face to the rule of law” went into effect last week on Aug. 15, 2012, and many young undocumented immigrants are expected to benefit from the discretionary adjudication program including employment authorization (work permit) in the next 2 years. Today, Gov. Perry publicized his advice to the state agencies that “Texas' policies on persons in the country illegally remain unchanged.”
On June 15, US Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano issued a “Memorandum” to the directors of the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency (ICE), instructing the agency to exercise broader “prosecutorial discretion” towards certain group of unlawful immigrants during the immigration law enforcement by the agency.
USCIS has just released its latest EB-5 statistics provided for a 5/1/12 stakeholder engagement, including information on service-wide receipts, approvals, and denials of I-526s and I-829s, as well as the number of approved EB-5 Regional Centers by fiscal year and I-924 receipts, approvals, and denials by fiscal year.
Yu, South & Associates just learned yesterday that according to the latest official count as of April 27, 2012, USCIS has received or approved 29,200 new cap subject H-1B filings out of the total of 65,000 regular H-1B annual cap for the fiscal year 2013.
