President Obama Announces Executive Action on Immigration On November 20, 2014, President Barack Obama unveiled his executive action plan on immigration. The President’s plan will affect an estimated 5 million undocumented immigrants currently [...]
Nationals of Liberia, Guinea, and Sierra Leone can apply for Temporary Protected Status On November 20, 2014, due to the outbreak of Ebola virus disease in West Africa, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced [...]
National Interest Waiver for a Financial Analyst I.S. Law Firm obtained permanent residence (“green-card”) through a process called National Interest Waiver for our client, a financial analyst from Cyprus working in non-profit finance in [...]
DHS to Implement Haitian Family Reunification Parole Program On October 17, 2014, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced that, starting in early 2015, it will begin implementation of a Haitian Family Reunification Parole (HFRP) [...]
Temporary Protected Status Extended for Honduras and Nicaragua On October 16, 2014, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has extended Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for eligible nationals of Honduras for an additional 18 months, effective Jan. [...]
Immigration Enforcement Statistics for Fiscal Year 2013 On October 1, 2014, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) released its immigration enforcement statistics for the 2013 fiscal year, which ended on September 30, 2014. This Office [...]
Diversity Visa Lottery 2016 Entries for the DV-2016 Diversity Visa program must be submitted electronically at www.dvlottery.state.gov between noon, Eastern Daylight Time (EDT) (GMT-4), Wednesday, October 1, 2014, and noon, Eastern Standard Time (EST) [...]
DHS Extends Temporary Protected Status for Sudan and South Sudan On September 2, 2014, Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson announced that he would extend Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for eligible nationals of Sudan for an additional [...]
Immigration Relief Measures to Nationals of Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone On August 15, 2014, the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced Ebola outbreak-related immigration relief measures to nationals of Guinea, Liberia and [...]
I.S. Law Firm secured grant of asylum in immigration court for our client, a Yemeni citizen who was persecuted in Yemen because he belongs to one of the Yemeni tribes.Attorney Ismail Shahtakhtinski demonstrated to the satisfaction of the immigration [...]
