Archives for June 2015

Today, USCIS held a teleconference “listening session” with stakeholders in order to get feedback and ideas about how to implement President Obama’s proposed "significant benefit" entrepreneur parole program. USCIS officials merely listened to ideas and gave very few comments except to clarify the points they were most interested in learning about. Anyone can submit suggestions or ideas to public.engagement@uscis.dhs.gov. They are particularly interested in feedback about minimum investment … [Read more...]

On June 17, 2015, the U.S. State Department reported that various U.S. consular and embassy posts around the world are experiencing technical problems issuing visas.  It is unclear if the technical glitches are affecting both non-immigrant and immigrant visas.  The State Department says on its web page that the problems are with its Consular Consolidated Database (CCD) and that they have government and private contractors working on fixing a patch.  We have had several clients receive both … [Read more...]