News Update - July 16, 2007
By Alan Lee, Esq.†‡
Reports Circulating that U.S.C.I.S. About to Reverse Course in
Visa Number Scandal
Reports coming out of Washington indicate that the government is
set to make an announcement on the visa numbers scandal in which
U.S.C.I.S. requested enough visa numbers by July 2nd for the Department
of State to take the unprecedented action of revising the July visa
bulletin and changing employment classes EB-1 through EB-3 from
open to closed. That action (involving questionably legal means)
was apparently taken to protect U.S.C.I.S. from losing hundreds
of millions of dollars from applicants who could file I-485 adjustment
of status applications before the agency's large fee hikes came
into effect on July 30th. It is not clear at this time whether the
announcement will put all potential applicants in the same position
that they were in under the earlier visa bulletin of having the
entire month of July to submit their visa applications - but anything
less is certain to continue lawsuits and criticism of the agency.
Stay tuned.
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