AAO changes NIW standard – Matter of Dhanasar
By Attorney Farhad Sethna © 2017 Summary: On December 27, 2016, the Administrative Appeals Office (the government agency in the USCIS which oversees decisions of the USCIS to decide if […]
Who’s Going to do Our Dirty Work*, America?
By Attorney Farhad Sethna © 2016 Good morning America! As president-elect Trump puts into place a team of anti-immigration advisers for the transition and a very anti-immigrant Attorney General- Jeff […]
Supreme Court Smashes Hopes of Millions
Supreme Court unable to reach decision on DACA+ (“Super DACA”) and DAPA By Attorney Farhad Sethna ©2016 On June 23, 2016, the United States Supreme Court announced that it had a […]
NEW “STEM-OPT” RULES- A MIXED BAG
By Attorney Farhad Sethna © 2016 All Rights Reserved Background: Last year, a group of aggrieved US citizens filed a complaint in federal court alleging that the Department of Labor […]
L-1A VISAS – Small companies, don’t bother applying
By Attorney Farhad Sethna © 2016 All Rights Reserved Despite all the public announcements about increasing investment in the USA and encouraging entrepreneurship, the USCIS seems hellbent on reversing the […]
Coaches may self-petition as EB-1 Extraordinary Ability Aliens
By Attorney Farhad Sethna © 2016 In Matter of K-S-Y-, the Administrative Appeals Office of the USCIS held on March 9, 2016 that an individual who applied for classification as […]
ASYLUM OFFICE BACKLOGS ACROSS THE USA
By Attorney Farhad Sethna © 2015 The USCIS Asylum Office issues status updates on the processing times at its various asylum offices throughout the nation. In the latest update (December […]
USCIS and DOS mistake shatters hopes and dreams….
by Farhad Sethna, Attorney, copyright 2015 The US Department of State posted a visa bulletin in a new format on September 9, 2015. In that format, the Bulletin announced two […]