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U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) launched the Entrepreneurs in Residence (EIR) initiative with an Information Summit focused on ensuring that the immigration pathways for foreign entrepreneurs are clear and consistent, and better reflect today's business realities.
Agency kicks off effort to ensure that immigration pathways for foreign entrepreneurs are clear and consistent, and better reflect today's business realities
Update: I-601 Provisional Waiver Is Not in Effect. To learn more, read this alert.
Introduction
USCIS is considering changes that would allow certain immediate relatives (the spouse, children or parents of a U.S. citizen) who can demonstrate extreme hardship to a U.S. citizen spouse or parent to receive a provisional waiver of the unlawful presence bars before leaving the United States.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) invited stakeholders to join in a teleconference on February 16, 2012, 2:00 - 3:00 pm EST to discuss the automation of the Form I-94 (Arrival/Departure Record) and potential impacts on state/local benefit-granting agencies and employers.
Important Announcement from USCIS about Biometrics for People in the CNMI with Pending Applications
If you are in the Commonwealth of Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI) and have an application pending with U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), please ignore any notice from USCIS that says you have a biometrics appointment in Honolulu.
If you receive such a notice from USCIS, it is the result of a computer error.
You do not go to Hawaii for biometrics. Your biometrics appointment will be in Saipan, Rota or Tinian, depending upon your work location.
The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) Verification Division and the Office of Public Engagement invited stakeholders to participate in a national stakeholder teleconference on Monday, February 13, 2012 at 3:00PM (Eastern Time) to discuss a potential Final Nonconfirmation Review (FNC) process for E-Verify.
The USCIS Field Operations Directorate, Office of Intake and Document Production and Office of Public Engagement held an engagement on Wednesday, November 30 from noon to 1:00 pm (Eastern) to discuss changes to the process for filing citizenship and naturalization forms.
The USCIS Office of Citizenship and Office of Public Engagement conducted an engagement on Wednesday, December 14 from 1:00 to 3:00 pm (EST) to discuss citizenship education strategies for older applicants.
USCIS Announces Outreach to Chinese Immigrant CommunityFebruary 6, 20121:00 pm ETCoordinator: Welcome and thank you for standing by. All participants will be in a listen-only mode until the question and answer session. To ask a question at that time please press star then 1. Today’s conference is being recorded. If you have any objections you may disconnect at this time. And now I’d like to turn the meeting over to Miss Edna Ruano, Chief of the Office of Communications for U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services.