SZE News

USCIS Announces New Process for Submitting to VIBE

Szabo, Zelnick & Erickson, P.C. — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 08:36:45 GMT

The independent information provider (IIP) for USCIS's Validation Instrument for Business Enterprises (VIBE) program, Dun & Bradstreet (D&B), has launched a new streamlined online process for certain USCIS petitioners and other U.S. government customers seeking to submit information about their organizations into VIBE's database. VIBE is a web-based adjudication tool ...

USCIS Announces Its Intent to Implement Stateside Processing of Unlawful Presence Waivers

Szabo, Zelnick & Erickson, P.C. — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 15:35:27 GMT

On January 6, 2012 the Department of Homeland Security announced that it will be issuing new regulations for how unlawful presence waivers will be processed for certain immediate relatives filing immigrant visa applications abroad. The announcement was delivered in a notice to be published in the Federal Register on January 9, 2012.

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USCIS Announces Change to Filing Locations for Stand Alone Form I-130 Filings

Szabo, Zelnick & Erickson, P.C. — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 15:38:17 GMT

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has recently accounced that it will soon change the filing locations for Form I-130, Petition for Alien Relative. Effective Jan. 1, 2012, depeding on where they reside in the U.S., domestic petitioners will mail their stand-alone I-130 applications to either the Chicago Lockbox or the ...

Senate hold on Fairness for High-Skilled Immigrants Act continues

Szabo, Zelnick & Erickson, P.C. — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 15:18:28 GMT

In order to release his hold on H.R. 3012, the Fairness for High-Skilled Immigrants Act, on December 15, 2011 Senator Grassley offered an amendment to make dramatic changes to the bill. These changes include eliminating the family-sponsored per country cap increase, reducing the employment-based per country cap to 15%, and ...

USCIS Announces Plan to Become Completely Electronic

Szabo, Zelnick & Erickson, P.C. — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 08:45:04 GMT

On December 2, 2011 Alejandro Mayorkas, Director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services announced on The Beacon, the official blog of USCIS, that USCIS is in the post-development testing phase of a new system that will transform the paper-based agency into an electronic, online organization. The new system has been titled, USCIS Electronic ...