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10/15/2024

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06/19/2024

Keeping American Families Together.. Start collecting your documents.. Finally is this the beginning of the end of 601A-maybe..


Today, President Biden is announcing that the Department of Homeland Security will take action to ensure that U.S. citizens with noncitizen spouses and children can keep their families together.
This new process will help certain noncitizen spouses and children apply for lawful permanent residence – status that they are already eligible for – without leaving the country.
These actions will promote family unity and strengthen our economy, providing a significant benefit to the country and helping U.S. citizens and their noncitizen family members stay together.
In order to be eligible, noncitizens must – as of June 17, 2024 – have resided in the United States for 10 or more years and be legally married to a U.S. citizen, while satisfying all applicable legal requirements. On average, those who are eligible for this process have resided in the U.S. for 23 years.
Those who are approved after DHS’s case-by-case assessment of their application will be afforded a three-year period to apply for permanent residency. They will be allowed to remain with their families in the United States and be eligible for work authorization for up to three years. This will apply to all married couples who are eligible.
This action will protect approximately half a million spouses of U.S. citizens, and approximately 50,000 noncitizen children under the age of 21 whose parent is married to a U.S. citizen.

06/18/2024

https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2024/06/18/politics/biden-immigration-executive-action

Spouses have been here waiting years in line with petitons pending. This is a fact!

The Biden administration on Tuesday will announce an executive action allowing certain undocumented spouses and children of US citizens to apply for lawful permanent residency without leaving the country – a sweeping election-year move that could offer deportation protections to hundreds of thousa...

09/21/2023

https://www.dhs.gov/news/2023/09/20/fact-sheet-biden-harris-administration-takes-new-actions-increase-border

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is announcing another series of actions to increase enforcement across the Southwest Border, accelerate processing of work authorizations, and the decision to redesignate and extend Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Venezuela.

06/13/2023

Rescission of Prior TPS Terminations and Extension of TPS for El Salvador, Honduras, Nepal, and Nicaragua
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced plans to rescind its prior terminations of Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for El Salvador, Honduras, Nepal, and Nicaragua and extend TPS designations for all four countries for 18 months. DHS will publish Federal Register notices (FRNs) for the El Salvador, Honduras, Nepal, and Nicaragua TPS rescissions and extensions and provide additional information on the re-registration process soon.
El Salvador
The extension of TPS for El Salvador from Sept. 10, 2023, through March 9, 2025, allows approximately 239,000 current beneficiaries to re-register to retain TPS under the extension, if they still meet TPS eligibility requirements. Only beneficiaries under El Salvador’s existing designation or Salvadoran nationals (and individuals having no nationality who last habitually resided in El Salvador) who have continuously resided in the United States since Feb. 13, 2001, and have been continuously physically present since March 9, 2001, are eligible under this extension.
Honduras
The extension of TPS for Honduras from Jan. 6, 2024, through July 5, 2025, allows approximately 76,000 current beneficiaries to re-register to retain TPS under the extension, if they still meet TPS eligibility requirements. Only beneficiaries under Honduras’ existing designation or Honduran nationals (and individuals having no nationality who last habitually resided in Honduras) who have continuously resided in the United States since Dec. 30, 1998, and have been continuously physically present since Jan. 5, 1999, are eligible under this extension.
Nepal
The extension of TPS for Nepal from Dec. 25, 2023, through June 24, 2025, allows approximately 14,500 current beneficiaries to re-register to retain TPS under the extension, if they still meet TPS eligibility requirements. Only beneficiaries under Nepal’s existing designation or Nepali nationals (and individuals having no nationality who last habitually resided in Nepal) who have continuously resided in the United States since June 24, 2015, and have been continuously physically present since June 24, 2015, are eligible under this extension.
Nicaragua
The extension of TPS for Nicaragua from Jan. 6, 2024, through July 5, 2025, allows approximately 4,000 current beneficiaries to re-register to retain TPS under the extension, if they still meet TPS eligibility requirements. Only beneficiaries under Nicaragua’s existing designation or Nicaraguan nationals (and individuals having no nationality who last habitually resided in Nicaragua) who have continuously resided in the United States since Dec. 30, 1998, and have been continuously physically present since Jan. 5, 1999, are eligible under this extension.
More Information
Existing El Salvador, Honduras, Nepal, and Nicaragua TPS beneficiaries who wish to extend their status must re-register during the 60-day re-registration periods that will be detailed in the FRNs. The FRNs will automatically extend the validity of Employment Authorization Documents, Forms I-94, Arrival/Departure Record, and Forms I-797, Notice of Action (Approval Notice).
USCIS will plan and coordinate outreach opportunities to provide information and answer questions from the public regarding the extension of TPS for all four countries.
For the most current information related to Temporary Protected Status, visit our TPS webpage.
For more information on USCIS and its programs, please visit uscis.gov or follow us on Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, Facebook and LinkedIn.

05/09/2023

New Family Reunification Parole Processes. DHS is creating new family reunification parole processes for El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Colombia. The agency is also modernizing existing family reunification parole processes for Cuba and Haiti. These processes, once finalized, will allow vetted individuals with already approved family-based petitions to be paroled into the United States, on a case-by-case basis. The U.S. Government will deliver timely and efficient autho… See more

01/10/2023

https://www.uscis.gov/CHNV

ALERT: Starting Jan. 6, 2023, you must submit F

10/19/2022

10/13/2022

Washington, DC – The American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA) and the American Immigration Council responded to the announcement from the Biden Administration of two major initiatives to address the continued arrival of large numbers of vulnerable Venezuelan nationals: a parole program to protect up to 24,000 individuals with ties to the United States coupled with highly restrictive border enforcement to expel Venezuelans who cross the border without prior authorization back to Mexico. Additionally, an expansion of the H-2B temporary worker visa program was announced, adding nearly 65,000 visas with 20,000 set aside for nationals from Haiti, Honduras, Guatemala, and El Salvador.

10/13/2022

Process for Venezuelans
On Oct. 12, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced a safe and lawful way for qualifying Venezuelans with supporters to travel by air to the United States, temporarily reside in the United States, and apply for work authorization.

To be eligible, Venezuelans must:

Have a supporter in the United States who will provide financial and other support;
Pass rigorous biometric and biographic national security and public safety screening and vetting; and
Complete vaccinations and other public health requirements.
Venezuelans are ineligible if they have:

Been ordered removed from the United States in the previous five years;
Crossed without authorization between ports of entry after the date of this announcement;
Irregularly entered Mexico or Panama after the date of this announcement, or are a permanent resident or dual national of any country other than Venezuela, or currently hold refugee status in any country; or
Not completed vaccinations and other public health requirements.
Additional information on this process will be available on this page in the coming days.

09/22/2022

Es Su Derecho Pedir Asilo! No son inmigrantes ilegales.

09/22/2022

https://www.uscis.gov/newsroom/news-releases/dhs-announces-re-registration-process-for-current-venezuela-temporary-protected-status-beneficiaries

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) posted for public inspection a Federal Register notice describing how beneficiaries under Venezuela’s existing TPS designation can re-register to retain TPS and renew their Employment Authorization Documents (EADs).