Winners and Losers
The July 2007 Visa Bulletin rocked the immigration world by declaring all Employment Based Visa Categories for US “Current”, which means is through out the month of July 2007, aliens in US who have either filed their Form I-140 or already have approved I-140s in their possession can file for irrespective of [...]
President Bush’s Immigration Reform Bill failed to clear the senate the second, falling short of 14 votes from the 60 needed to push the bill towards a final vote. Around 33 Democrats, 12 Republicans and one independent voted for the bill, while 37 senators of Bush’s own Republican Party along with 15 Democrats and [...]
The USCIS has declared that it is temporarily suspending Premium Processing Service for Form I-140, Immigrant Petition for Alien Worker, effective July 2, 2007. USCIS is anticipating increase in the number of I-140s in the wake of the Department of State July 2007 Visa Bulletin which has declared all employ based visa categories “Current” [...]
Reports from the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA) suggest that the State Department will probably issue a revised Visa Bulletin for July 2007 on Monday July 2nd or Tuesday July 3rd, which will retrogress most of the employment-based categories. There are indications that some categories may even become unavailable after these dates. This is [...]
There is a rumor buzzing in the Immigration world that the “Current” status granted to EB categories in the July 2007 Visa bulletin may be shorter lived then predicted. Officially, there has been no such indication so far and the Bulletin itself indicated a time frame till September 2007. Meanwhile, we will be monitoring [...]
