When U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) issued updated guidance on Aug. 5, 2026, regarding evidentiary standards, Requests for Evidence (RFEs), and Notices of Intent to Deny (NOIDs), much of
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USCIS has updated its policy guidance regarding eligibility evidence and adjudication of immigration benefit requests.
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As an update to our previous blog, the EB-5 Regional Center program was not extended by Congress by June 30, 2021. Congress did not pass a law to extend
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On June 9, 2021, USCIS issued three new Policy Alerts in the USCIS Policy Manual. These updates support Executive Order (EO) 14012, “Restoring Faith in Our Legal Immigration Systems
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The U.S. federal government shut down at the end of the day on Dec. 21, 2018, and the president did not sign into law the extension of the EB-5 program
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On June 28, 2018, the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) issued a Policy Memorandum titled “Updated Guidance for the Referral of Cases and Issuance of Notices to Appear (NTAs)
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