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USCIS Extends Initial H-1B Cap Registration Period for Fiscal Year 2025 Until March 25 – The initial registration period will now extend until noon ET on March 25, 2024.
USCIS Clarifies Policy Guidance on Expedition Requests – United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has clarified how the agency plans to expedite requests related to government interests and emergencies or urgent humanitarian situations, including requests related to travel. The update also clarifies how to make an expedited request and explains how USCIS processes expedited requests.
DHS Expands and Redesignates Burma (Myanmar) TPS – The Department of Homeland Security extends and redesignates Burma (Myanmar) for Temporary Protected Status.
USCIS Reopens Field Office in Tegucigalpa, Honduras – The Tegucigalpa Field Office will be located inside the U.S. Embassy in Honduras.
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USCIS Extends initial H-1B cap registration period for FY 2025 until March 25
The United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced on March 21, 2024 that it has extended the initial registration period for the Fiscal Year (FY) 2025 H-1B cap. , which opened at noon ET on March 6, 2024 and was originally scheduled to end at noon ET on March 22, 2024, will now continue until noon ET on March 25, 2024. USCIS said it is ” aware of a temporary system outage experienced by some registrants, and is extending the registration period to allow more time due to this issue.
During this period, potential petitioners and their representatives, if applicable, must use a USCIS online account to electronically register each beneficiary for the selection process and pay the associated registration fee for each beneficiary, it said. USCIS. The agency added that it still intends to notify selected registrants by March 31, 2024.
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USCIS Clarifies Policy Guidance on Expedited Requests
The United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced on March 21, 2024 that it has updated its guidance in its USCIS Policy Manual, effective immediately, to clarify how the agency plans to expedite requests related to Government interests and emergencies or urgent humanitarian situations, including requests related to travel. The update also clarifies how to make an expedited request and explains how USCIS processes expedited requests.
USCIS said it “may expedite cases identified as urgent by the United States federal, state, tribal, territorial, or local governments because they involve the public interest, public safety, national interest or national security. When a request for acceleration is made by an agency or department of the federal government based on government interests, USCIS generally defers to that agency or department’s assessment.
The update also clarifies that USCIS will consider expediting Form I-131, Request for Travel Documentfor the benefit of applicants in the United States “when they have an urgent or critical need to leave the United States, whether the need to travel is related to an unforeseen or planned event, such as a work, academic, or personal commitment” .
When the need is related to a planned event, USCIS said it considers whether the applicant filed Form I-131 on time and whether processing delays would prevent USCIS from issuing the travel document before the planned departure date.
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DHS Expands and Redesignates Burma (Myanmar) TPS
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is extending and redesignating Burma (Myanmar) for Temporary Protected Status (TPS).
Extension. TPS for eligible beneficiaries will be extended for 18 months, beginning on May 26, 2024, and ending on November 25, 2025. Current TPS beneficiaries who wish to extend their status to November 25, 2025 must re-enroll during the 60 days. re-registration period beginning on the date of publication of the notice in the Federal Register (currently scheduled for March 25, 2024).
Redesignation. DHS estimates that approximately 7,300 people could become newly eligible for TPS under Burma’s new designation. DHS explained that Burma’s new designation allows additional Burma nationals (and non-nationals who last ordinarily resided in Burma) who have resided continuously in the United States since March 21, 2024, to apply for TPS for the first time during the period. initial registration period, which begins on the date of publication of the notice in the Federal Register (currently scheduled for March 25, 2024) and ends on November 25, 2025.
In addition to demonstrating continuous residence in the United States since March 21, 2024 and meeting other eligibility criteria, initial applicants for TPS under the designation must demonstrate that they have been continuously physically present in the United States -United since May 26, 2024, the effective date. date of the redesignation, DHS said.
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USCIS Reopens Field Office in Tegucigalpa, Honduras
The United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced on March 22, 2024 the reopening of an international office in Tegucigalpa, Honduras. USCIS said the Tegucigalpa field office, which will be available by appointment only, “will focus on increasing refugee processing capacity and helping reunite individuals with family members already in the United States.
The Tegucigalpa field office will be located inside the U.S. Embassy in Honduras. USCIS said its staff will assume responsibility for agency workloads currently managed by the State Department’s consular section. Additionally, the reopening of the USCIS Tegucigalpa field office “will help support the U.S. Government’s efforts to resettle refugees from the Americas,” USCIS said.
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