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| The USCIS recently released a policy memorandum concerning its adjudication of EB 1-A visa and EB 1-B Visa. The memorandum updates the USCIS’s guidelines to its adjudicators as to how to review an application’s documentation and refines how the adjudicators analysis each petition. The EB 1-A visa (also known as the EB 1-1 visa) is … Continue reading “USCIS Updates its EB 1-A and EB 1-B Visa Criteria Guidelines” The USCIS recently released a preliminary template for its adjudicators to follow when deciding EB-1 decisions. The release was made to allow EB-1-1 practitioners the opportunity to comment on the revised template before it became final. The USCIS decided to review and revise its process for granting EB-1-1 visa decisions following a 9th Circuit Court … Continue reading “USCIS Issues Preliminary Template For EB-1 Decisions” As previously mentioned, the USCIS has issued a preliminary memorandum concerning changes it is considering making to the EB 1-1 and EB 1-2 Visa category. The impetus for the memorandum is the Ninth Circuit’s Kazaran decision, which criticized the USCIS for creating novel interpretations of the EB 1-1 and EB 1-2 criteria. The preliminary memorandum … Continue reading “Clearer Standards Coming To EB 1-1 Visa and EB 1-2 Visa?” Immigrant Professor and Researcher Ei-ichi Negishi has won the 2010 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Professor Negishi is an immigrant from Japan who has been in the United States since the 1960s. Professor Negishi obtained a Ph.D. from the University of Penn., and has been a professor at Syracuse University and Purdue University for nearly five … Continue reading “Immigrant Professor Wins Nobel Prize in Chemistry” Last week, the USCIS issued a proposed memorandum for revising its criteria for adjudicating the EB 1-1 and EB 1-2 Visas. The USCIS is seeking shareholders to comment on its memorandum before it either makes it official or withdrawals it. The EB 1-1 and EB 1-2 Visas are used to attract the best and brightest … Continue reading “USCIS Seeks Input on Proposed EB 1-1 Visa and EB 1-2 Visa Criteria” Recently, the Columbus Dispatch ran a story about a former Soviet Gymnast who had won Olympic Gold in the 1980s, but was denied an EB 1-1 extraordinary abilities visa. The story is an all to common problem that many EB 1-1 visa applicants face. The EB 1-1 visa is available to applicants who are currently … Continue reading “A Cautionary Tale of the Extraordinary EB-1 Visa” Last week, the 9th Circuit came down with a ruling that should have a great impact on how the USCIS adjudicates EB-1-1 Extraordinary Abilities petitions. The EB 1-1 (also known as EB 1-a) is used by highly successful foreign nationals to gain lawful permanent residency in the United States. The EB 1-1 visa requires an … Continue reading “9th Circuit Rebuffs USCIS Adjudication of EB-1 Extraordinary Abilities Petitions” | ||
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