The USCIS's new memo encourages immigrants to apply for a green card from outside the U.S. – even if they're already here.

Because employees have routinely been able to adjust status from within the United States, U.S. employers with immigration ...

The Trump administration’s latest immigration policy of recasting ‘adjustment of status’ as an ‘extraordinary’ discretionary benefit and pushing many green card applicants toward consular processing ...

The new USCIS policy PM-602-0199 pushing green card processing overseas could postpone U.S. tax residency, worldwide taxation and foreign asset reporting for some.

Last month, the Trump administration sent the immigration-law world into a frenzy.

Some USCIS officers have begun asking green-card applicants why they chose Adjustment of Status (AOS) rather than consular processing abroad following the agency's controversial May 22 policy memo, ...

Aliens who intend to remain in the United States aren’t eligible for a nonimmigrant visitor’s visa in the first place.

US immigration memo under Trump administration raises concerns for Indian H-1B professionals as Green Card processing shifts ...

The Trump administration said Friday that people with temporary visas seeking to adjust their immigration status to obtain green cards must return to their home countries to “do so through consular ...

USCIS has directed its officers to apply adjustment of status, as a matter of discretion and administrative grace and only as an extraordinary relief.

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