From Huffpost today: The Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, or DACA, will remain in place, keeping nearly 650,000 undocumented young people safe from deportation, thanks to a ruling on Thursday by the Supreme Court. The court ruled that President Donald...
At The Law Offices of Neelam Bhardwaj, we are committed to ensuring that you have up to the minute immigration information that can affect you and your family. January 27, 2020 it was announced that the Supreme Court, by a vote of 5-4, granted President Trump the...
New policies in the U.S. immigration system have now made it possible for qualifying Liberian immigrants to apply for a green card and begin their path to permanent U.S. residency. As North Carolina’s premier immigration lawyers, we’re uniquely qualified to assist...
Public Charge Rule Challenge Recently there have been some new developments in the Public Charge Rule proposed by the Trump administration. In three separate states, federal judges have blocked the changes. The Public Charge Rule was set to take effect on October...
On August 14, 2019, DHS (Department of Homeland Security) finalized the new public charge rules which will become effective on October 15th of 2019. The Trump administration, published the proposed new public charge rules on October 10th of 2018. The proposed rule...
H4 Visas are granted to immediate family members (spouses and underage children) that have obtained an H1B with status that was extended beyond 6 years under the AC21 Act. The H4 allows family members to become gainfully employed in the US while accompanying their H1...
DACA – Updates August 2019 “Dreamers” in the US under the DACA program are still very much in limbo as to what their future holds. Since President Trump decided to trash the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) in 2017, an estimated 700,000 participants...
USCIS (United States Citizenship and Immigration Services) recently released an update to the 2019 poverty level income guidelines. Understanding what this information can mean to your application to sponsor a family member for entry into the US is vital to the...
President Donald Trump’s Executive Order to ban travel to the United States from a list of several countries took affect December 2018, after two earlier iterations had been blocked by lower courts, and applies different degrees of the ban on travel which...
What Is The H1B Visa? The H1B visa is a requirement in the United States under the Immigration and Nationality Act that allows U.S. employers the opportunity to temporarily hire and employ workers from foreign countries in specialty occupations. The H1B visa...