USCIS has completed receipting and data entry for all filings of Form I-751, Petition to Remove Conditions on Residence, received between May 1 and Sept. 9, 2018. Petitioners should have received receipt notices by Oct. 22, 2018.

On June 13, 2018, USCIS announced that the California Service Center (CSC) was experiencing a delay in initial data entry for Form I-751. After changing the filing location for Form I-751 from the USCIS Service Centers to the USCIS Lockbox facilities in September

Those interested in applying for parole under the International Entrepreneur Rule (IER) should take note that the instructions to Form I-941, Application for Entrepreneur Parole, contain requirements that are different from the requirements contained in the final rule published in January 2017. Specifically:

• The instructions require a 15% ownership stake in the start-up entity; 10% for extensions and amendments. (The January 2017 final rule only requires 10% ownership for the initial