Worldwide Passport & Visa News and Updates

The current beneficiaries of Temporary Protected Status (TPS) under Yemen’s designation must re-register between August 14 and October 15, 2018 if they wish to maintain their status through the extension date of March 3. According to a press release issued by the US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) a guideline on the re-registration procedures, which also explain how to renew employment authorization documents, has been published in the Federal Registers in order to guide those who wish [...]

The US Department of Homeland Security has released a report on Entry / Exit Overstay for the Fiscal Year 2017, according to which more than 600,000 people overstayed their US visas last year. The report shows that 1.15% of more than 52.6 million people, who were supposed to depart the country by the end of December last year, illegally remained. DHS Charts show the countries, the passport holders of which overstayed most their permitted stays in the [...]

Legal immigrants who have applied for US public benefits may have it harder to become US citizens or get green cards in the future, if the newest proposal by Trump administration gets approved. White House senior adviser and white nationalist Stephen Miller, has come with the plan of introducing a bill that makes it more difficult to become a US citizen or obtain a green card for legal immigrants, if they or their household members have ever [...]

Two US Congress representatives, Michael Quigley, US Representative for Illinois's 5th congressional district, and Tom Rice, US Representative for South Carolina's 7th congressional district have introduced the Jobs Originating through Launching Travel Act, shortly referred to as JOLT. The JOLT Act is a bipartisan attempt to increase national security, reform the old visa laws as well as to bolster international tourism to the US, thus making it possible to create new jobs. Moreover, the bill renames the [...]