Immigrants Win Their Cases

Sabias que este año el 71% de clientes con caso de Asilo fue aprobado en conjunto con otros temas en la corte de inmigración?

85% de clientes que solicitaron liberación de detención también ganaron ese caso ante un juez de inmigración.

Todo esto gracias a la Campana de Justicia de Inmigracion del consejo Estadounidense.

Disability Exception for Citizenship

USCIS offers an exception to the English and civics testing requirements for naturalization because of physical, developmental disability or mental impairment with documented medical disability. This waiver is available for applicants who diagnosed with medical conditions such as dementia, down syndrome, and other physical illness that prevent applicant from learning English.

Delays and Case Backlogs with USCIS

Since 2020, USCIS faces a long backlog with the pending cases. Many immigrants were not able to receive their immigration benefits. Even processing times in USCIS have been increasing since covid started.

Delays and long processing times with USCIS can be very frustrating for immigrants since many of them applied for work permit renewals and processing times are very long.

How to Get an American Fiancé(e) Visa

Moving home with your fiancé(e) involves 3 governmental agencies – US Citizenship and Immigration Services, Dept. of State (DOS), and US Customs and Border Protection (CBP).

You must first file a Petition for Alien Fiancé(e) (Form I-129F), which leads to a K-1 nonimmigrant visa, AKA the "fiancé(e) visa".

The process can be made easier by talking to an immigration lawyer.

Who Can Use the Citizenship Disability Exemption Form?

Citizenship Disability Exemption Form Requirements

People with a mental or physical disability lasting 12 months or longer don't need to meet the English and civics requirements for United States naturalization.

The disability must be "medically determinable", and a medical professional must sign a disability exception form confirming this no more than 6 months before the application is filed.

The Federal STEM Plan and the Role of Immigrants in the US Workforce

The US government says that between 2020 and 2030, America will need 1 million more science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) workers. Immigrants help fill these jobs and the Biden government has a plan to attract them.

The American Immigration Council made guides on the government’s 5 STEM plans:

Matching US companies looking to host non-immigrant J-1 exchange visitors
22 fields of study added to the STEM Optional Practical Training (OPT) program
Updated how the USCIS decides eligibility for O-1 visas
USCIS policy update on national interest waivers (NIWs) for immigrants with advanced STEM degrees, letters from US government agencies or organizations, or who are entrepreneurs
Additional 36 months of study for J-1 exchange visitors

They also made a factsheet on immigrant STEM workers that showed the following:

Immigrant STEM workers increased from 1.2 million to 2.5 million between 2000 to 2019. They went from being 16.4% of all STEM workers to 23.1%.

While 67.3% of US-born STEM workers have at least a bachelor’s degree, 86.5% of immigrant STEM workers do.