With all the news about recent delays, problems, and new obstacles in the immigration process, we wanted to quickly share a more positive update: some Adjustment of Status cases are being processed very quickly in the Portland, OR, area.

This trend began a few months ago when we noticed...

Without much warning, the U.S. Department of State has introduced a new set of questions to all Consular Electronic Application forms pertaining to social media presence and usage. The online DS-160 and DS-260 forms, which must be completed by all individuals hoping to apply for a visa from a...

If you’re a United States citizen and you would like to bring your non-citizen partner to the United States from another country, marriage is ultimately going to have be part of your plan.  With the K-1 Visa process, you will be married after your partner enters the United States,...

In a recent study by J.D. Power regarding customer satisfaction with North American airports, Newark’s Liberty International Airport (EWR) was voted the worst “Mega Airport” in the country. This is not the first time the Newark Airport has received a very low score on such...

With a national immigration system that is far from perfect and near-constant news stories telling us how broken it is, it may feel like we are already experiencing the worst case scenario, or that we are experiencing a full-on crisis in all areas of immigration.

This is, of course, not entirely...

The United States needs more physicians.  This need is likely to worsen in the next decade: by 2030 the United States could see a shortage of up to 120,000 physicians according to the Association of American Medical Colleges.  To address this shortage, the U.S. government has provided...

The TN visa category, created by the North American Free Trade Agreement (“NAFTA”), allows Canadian and Mexican professionals to enter the United States for temporary employment purposes. NAFTA lists 62 qualifying professions (contained in Appendix 1603.D.1 of NAFTA) that are able to...

In Austria, McDonald’s fries come with a US passport. Yes, you read that correctly: thanks to a partnership between the fast food chain and US Embassy in Vienna, Americans in Austria can receive consular assistance from within any of the country’s 194 McDonald’s. If you lose...

Many people who come into the U.S. on the Exchange Visitor Program have a great experience and decide they’d like to pursue further opportunities here.

In fact, if you’ve built great friendships and see additional excellent educational and work options available in the USA, you are...

The H-1B visa program is clearly one of the main targets of the Trump administration.  In the coming weeks, the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (“USCIS”) will begin issuing Requests for Evidence (“RFEs”) for many of the Fiscal Year 2020 H-1B cap cases that...

Last week we wrote about the increasingly common occurrence of permanent residents working in the legal marijuana business in various US states and the uncertainty this has caused when it comes to their immigration status. Since marijuana has not been legalized federally, this is a confusing...

With headlines and news stories almost always focusing on the president’s unrelenting attempts to suspend the flow of illegal immigrants at the southern border, other types of immigration policy announcements may go unnoticed and often do not garner the same amount of public attention or...