The ImmInfo Library: Immigrant Matters

General Immigration Articles

• Acquiring immigrant status, generally 
• Understanding Visa Bulletin Movement: Supply
• Understanding Visa Bulletin Movement: Demand
• Understanding Visa Bulletin Movement: Calculating Visa Cutoff Date Movement
• The CIS security background check process
• How the immigrant quota system works, generally
• A Quick Guide to the Child Status Protection Act ("CPSA")
• Vaccination requirements 
• Employment based immigration quotas 
• Family based immigration quotas
• Family based affidavits of support (I-864)
• Employment based immigration, generally
• Family based immigration, generally
• How Visa Bulletin cutoff dates are established
• The CIS Adjudicator's Field Manual instructions to adjudicators regarding the continuing validity of immigrant preference petitions.
• The CIS Adjudicator's Field Manual instructions to adjudicators regarding revocation of immigrant preference petitions.

Labor Certification Articles

• PERM labor certification processing
• PERM timeliness
• DOL Administrative Law Judges' Benchbook dealing with foreign labor certification issues.

Employment based petitions

• Expediting employment based green card applications
• I-140 Petition requirements
• I-140 Filing checklist
• I-140 required supporting documents
• I-140 experience letter requirements
• Extraordinary ability petitions 
• Outstanding professors and researchers
• Multinational executives and managers 
• National interest waivers
• National interest waivers for physicians serving in underserved areas and VA facilities.
• CIS MEMO: Educational and Experience Requirements for Employment-Based Second Preference (EB-2) Immigrants
• CIS MEMO: Interim guidance for processing I-140 employment-based immigrant petitions and I-485 and H-1B petitions affected by AC21
• Retention of previously established employment based priority dates
• Immigrant Investors
• Special issues affecting physicians

CIS Adjudicator's Field Manual I-140 Adjudications Provisions:

• General adjudications issues
• Precedent Decisions
• Job offers and labor certifications
• Schedule A petitions
• Successor in interest
• Photocopies and duplicates of labor certifications
• Assessing the petitioner's ability to pay
• Priority dates
• Fraudulent marriage prohibition
• Licensure
• EB-1 Extraordinary ability petitions
• EB-1 Outstanding researcher or professor petitions
• EB-1 Multinational executives and managers
• EB-2 Exceptional ability aliens
• EB-2 Advanced degree aliens
• EB-2 National interest waivers
• EB-2 Physicians with approved labor certifications
• EB-2 National Interest Waivers for Physicians Serving in Medically Underserved Areas or at Department of Veterans Affairs Facilities.
• EB-3 Skilled workers vs. professionals

Family based petitions

• Revised affidavit of support requirements
• Fiancée ("K") visa
• Clarification of Aging Out Provisions as They Affect Preference Relatives and Immediate Family Members Under The Child Status Protection Act Section 6 And Form I-539 Adjudications for V Status
• CIS Memo - Child Citizenship Act implementation update.
• Automatic petition conversion upon change in circumstances
• Family based affidavits of support (I-864)
• Automatic petition revocation
• The difference between Conditional Residence and Permanent Residence
• Removing the condition on residence

Adjustment of Status Articles

• Adjustment of status, generally
• Statutory basis for adjustment of status
• The CIS Standard Operating Procedures for processing and adjudicating adjustment of status applications 
• Transferring an Adjustment of Status Application from One Underlying Eligibility Basis to Another
• "Unlawful presence" and "out of status" for adjustment of status purposes
• "Preconceived intent" and immediate relatives.
• Automatic abandonment through departure
• Getting married while in AOS proceedings
• Appealing a denial of adjustment of status
• Employment Authorization Document checklist
• Switching from adjustment of status to consular processing
• Advance Parole eligibility
• DUI is not a crime involving moral turpitude.
• Job portability interim guidance memo from CIS HQ
• Why it is not a good idea to try to maintain H-1B status after filing for AOS

Consular Processing Articles

• Consular processing, generally
• Consular processing: Documents required
• Getting married during consular processing
• Switching from consular processing to adjustment of status
• How the National Visa Center works

Miscellaneous Articles

• Tips for obtaining waivers of inadmissibility on the basis of "extreme hardship."

FAQs

• Employment based immigration
• Family based immigration
• Immigrant visa waiting list
• What is an "extraordinary ability" petition?
• What is adjustment of status (AOS)?
• What is "Section 245(i) processing?
• Advance parole
• Employment authorization documents (EAD)
• C.I.S. memo re I-140 portability benefits under §106(c) of AC21.
• What does "AC I-140 processing" mean?
• What is consular immigrant visa processing?