WASHINGTON—Two days after a terrorist attack in New York killed eight people and injured at least twelve others, President Trump called on Congress to immediately end the Diversity Visa (DV) Lottery program after meeting with Republican senators to discuss U.S. immigration policy. The recent attack, and the revelation that the attacker entered the U.S. under the DV program, has led to emotional public discourse over the wisdom and need of such a program. Many seem to think that the DV program

WASHINGTON – U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) will begin expanding in-person interviews for certain immigration benefit applicants whose benefit, if granted, would allow them to permanently reside in the United States. This change complies with Executive Order 13780, “Protecting the Nation From Foreign Terrorist Entry Into the United States,” and is part of the agency’s comprehensive strategy to further improve the detection and prevention of fraud and further enhance the

Donald Trump will be appearing at the San Diego Convention Center this Friday at 2:00pm. Immigration lawyers will be gathering in the Federal Plaza in front of the ICE offices at 880 Front Street, and will march in unison to the Convention Center to protest against Donald Trump's anti-immigration policies. Please join these caring immigration advocate at 12:00pm show your continued support of the Immigrant Community here in San Diego!

DIVERSITY IMMIGRANT (DV) CATEGORY FOR THE MONTH OF JUNE
Section 203(c) of the INA provides up to 55,000 immigrant visas each fiscal year to permit additional immigration opportunities for persons from countries with low admissions during the previous five years. The NACARA stipulates that beginning with DV-99, and for as long as necessary, up to 5,000 of the 55,000 annually-allocated diversity visas will be made available for use under the NACARA program. This resulted in reduction of

Iis published each and every month on approximately the 10th of the preceeding month and we call it the VISA BULLETIN, find out more here or contact our office below.

Over the past few days, many of you probably heard that the Obama Administration is launching a new round of immigration raidstargeting Central American women and children. The CARA Pro Bono Project staff have already begun to meet with families with final orders who were transferred to Dilley, Texas, over the past few days, and we will continue to monitor and report on the types of cases we see.

Texas is leading 26 states dominated by Republicans in challenging the programs that Obama announced in 2014 and that have been put on hold by lower courts.

As Texas v. United States heads to the Supreme Court, the American Immigration Council is looking for sympathetic examples of DACA applications that have been denied solely for failure to establish that the applicant warrants a favorable exercise of discretion. Specifically, we are looking for sympathetic cases where the following checkbox on the template DACA denial is marked: "You have not established that you warrant a favorable exercise of prosecutorial discretion," and where the agency has

This week, SCOTUSblog is publishing a multi-part online symposium on United States v. Texas, a challenge by Texas and twenty-five other states to the Obama administration's deferred action initiatives.

Modernizing & Streamlining our Legal Immigration System for the 21st Century

Attorneys at Guerra & Johnson are participating in a stakeholder engagement on Wednesday, Feb. 10, from 2 to 3 p.m. (Eastern) to discuss the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) final rule, “Enhancing Opportunities.” This is one of the recommendations published in the White House Report for Modernizing & Streamlining our Legal Immigration System for the 21st Century.