Immigration News

So you have scoured the U.S. Embassy website and have armed yourself with the knowledge that the tourist visa process appears quite simple enough. You began the journey by starting the DS-160 Form and start completing your information online at the State Department secure website. Then you realize you made your first mistake, which is …

In the immigration profession, the most frequently asked question is how the visa applicant can get a tourist visa to America and get it fast.  You can spend countless hours scouring the internet and find immigration forums with well intended posts but be completely befuddled by the immigration process. Here are some simple ways to …

The Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum has established an APEC Business Traveler Card to help expedite business travel among APEC member countries. The United States is a “transitional member” of this program. The ABTC is not yet being issued to U.S. citizens. The card allows holders to transit through the airport quickly using a …

May 22, 2011 WASHINGTON – U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) today announced that effective Aug. 15, 2011, petitioners residing in countries without USCIS offices will be able to file a Petition for an Alien Relative (Form I-130), with the USCIS Chicago Lockbox facility. This will increase the efficiency of the relative petition filing process …

Thousands of people told that they won U.S. immigrant visas through a worldwide lottery recently received disappointing news after a computer problem in the State Department program was discovered, and the selections were thrown out. According to the Associated Press the drawing should be random, but a computer glitch caused 90 percent of the winners …

It’s a long overdue step in the right direction for rectifying our broken immigration system. Crackdown on the hiring of illegal immigrants by focusing increasingly tough criminal charges on employers while moving away from criminal arrests of the workers themselves. Read it here.