The processing times for adjudicating form I-751, Petition to Remove Conditions on Residence, has greatly increased within the past few months. Individuals are waiting longer than 12 months for their cases to be finalized and adjudicated and applicants are becoming impatient. USCIS has recently allowed I-751 applicants the opportunity to travel and work for an extended 18 months rather than 12 months following the expiration of their conditional residence. Applicants will rec

The new Policy Memorandum explains that USCIS adjudicators now have the right to deny any application, petition, or request without issuing a Request for Evidence (RFE) or Notice of Intent to Deny (NOID) when an application is lacking initial evidence or the evidence does not provide eligibility. Statutory denials will be handed out when an applicant has no legal basis for approval or if they request benefits for a program that is no longer available. This guidance will becom

Last week on July 5th, 2018 U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) presented a new guidance regarding the issuance of Notices to Appear (NTA). An NTA is a document that is served to foreign nationals to issue them to appear in an immigration court. It serves notice that the deportation process has begun, and a court date will be set to determine if they will be able to stay in the United States through relief from removal, or are subject to deportation. This new po