USCIS Backlog as on March 31, 2008 Naturalization Applications  – 958,663 I-140 Applications             – 46,092 I-485 Applications             – 762,938 I-765 Applications             – 158,565 I-130 Applications             – 1,387,045 For more details see USCIS Website

The legislations in place currently to facilitate immigration of nurses to US have not been able to cover the shortage of nurses in the country. Recently, a new the Bill, HR 5924 or the Emergency Nursing Supply Relief Act was introduced to the house. This bill proposes to Increase Nurses Visa numbers by remove nurses [...]

The June 2008 Visa Bulletin, released by the U.S. Department of State (DOS) indicates that EB-3 numbers are almost over for this fiscal year and the numbers will probably be retrogressed starting July, till September 2008. The June Visa Bulletin will come into effect from June 1, 2008. Employment Based Categories EMPLOYMENT CATEGORIES Categories Worldwide [...]

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has published a Notice of Proposed Rule Making (NPRM), which will increase the maximum period of initial admission for a Trade-NAFTA (TN) Visa holder from Canada or Mexico from one year to three years and also increase the extension of stay period to three years from the initial one [...]

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) have recently updated its E-Verify employment authorization program to increasing its overall effectiveness. This is the first of a three-phase enhancement program for E- Verify aimed at decreasing the mismatch rate for naturalized citizens. Mismatch occurs when Social Security Number provided by a beneficiary doesn’t match with the data [...]