The United States welcomes over a million legal immigrants per year, and about half of them arrive in the United States with a green card in hand through the immigrant visa process. During the pandemic years of 2020-2022, however, backlogs in the immigrant ...

U.S. Sens. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) and Jerry Moran (R-Kan.) introduced the Visa Processing Improvement Act on July 27, a bipartisan bill aimed at addressing ongoing delays that have left some waiting for an interview for more than two years. In a November ...

Immigration attorney Rebecca Chen said H-1B visa holders should focus on maintaining a valid status inside the US as even slamm lapses can force consular processing and trigger the $100,000 supplemental fee. The fee, announced in September, is only ...

Some individuals encounter “administrative processing” delays with the US Department of State when applying for a visa at a U.S. consulate or embassy outside of the U.S. Administrative processing occurs when a consular officer determines that ...

One of the most important issues for immigrants is processing times of their applications. In May of 2022, the USCIS announced a trio of efforts to increase efficiency and reduce burdens to the overall legal immigration system. USCIS set new agency-wide ...