The US Citizenship and Immigration PortalThe Embassy of the United States in New Delhi, India informed the public on September 20, 2005 that it was going to introduce a new system to efficiently process visa applications across India for individuals wishing to travel to the United States. VSF, an organization that earlier provided application support in the Mumbai area, signed [...]
The fee for Form I-290B — Notice of Appeal to the Administrative Appeals Unit increased from $110 to $385, as of September 28, 2005. The final rule regarding this change was included in the August 29, 2005 Federal Register (70 FR 50954).
The department of labor (DOL) set up a new infrastructure to significantly reduce cases that built up over the years. Through its computerized labor certification processing distributed to different backlog elimination centers across the United States, it has been able to remove the bottleneck of approvals. Currently, the Backlog Elimination Centers have successfully entered the [...]
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) recently issued a reminder that, as of October 4, 2005, carriers will be required to include additional passenger manifest data through the Advance Passenger Information System (APIS). APIS is an automated system capable of performing database queries on passengers and crewmembers prior to their arrival in or departure from [...]
