Category: General

As the Ebola virus outbreak continues to spiral out of control in West Africa, solutions and potential relief measures are meager. In fact, lawmakers have used the crisis as a soundboard for their own gripes. Some critics have alleged that opposition to the immigration reform bill, which was passed last year by the Senate, is… Read More

On August 28, 2014 the Department of State published a Federal Register document changing the Schedule of Fees for Consular Services for the following: nonimmigrant visa application processing fees immigrant visa application processing and special visa services fees citizenship services fees The document contained the wrong effective date (September 6th, 2014), so on September 3,… Read More

The Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs announced that 100 students from Pakistan have arrived in the United States and participated in the Global Undergraduate Exchange Program’s (Global UGRAD-Pakistan) orientation in Washington, DC, from January 3-7, 2012. Launched in 2010, Global UGRAD-Pakistan provides an international academic exchange experience at a U.S. college… Read More

The Department of State announced on January 5, 2012, that 650 Brazilian students arrived in the United States in the first week in January to study in over 100 U.S. universities in 42 states. These students are the first wave of participants in Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff’s “Science Without Borders” scholarship program to come to… Read More

Following the Department of Justice’s challenge to Arizona’s recently passed immigration law, S.B. 1070, U.S. District Judge Susan Bolton of Phoenix, Arizona, issued a preliminary injunction against key provisions of the new statute. While not striking down the entire law, she blocked the provisions (1) requiring that an officer attempt to determine the immigration status… Read More