Update: USCIS has provided the following update re: adjudication of H-1B filings: Premium Processing cases are currently being receipted, and adjudication of these cases has begun (official adjudication clock for PP began April 15) Non-Premium cases will be receipted only after all Premium cases.  This will not likely be finished until sometime in May, possibly [...]

The Senate’s Gang of Eight on Tuesday released the details of a broad agreement to overhaul the nation’s immigration laws. A combination of Republican Sens. Marco Rubio (Fla.), John McCain (Ariz.), Lindsey Graham (S.C.), Jeff Flake (Ariz.) and Democratic Sens. Charles Schumer (N.Y.), Dick Durbin (Ill.), Bob Menendez (N.J.), and Michael Bennet (Colo.) released the proposal [...]

Per The Hill, a newspaper covering Congress and all things Politics, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said sometime last week, that more than 3,000 young illegal immigrants are applying for deferred deportation every day under the administration’s new immigration policy. About 200,000 young people in the country illegally have applied to defer their deportation for [...]