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10/21/2025

📢 U.S. Immigration Update: November 2025 Visa Bulletin Released

The U.S. Department of State has issued the November 2025 Visa Bulletin, outlining new Final Action Dates and Dates for Filing for employment-based categories (EB-1, EB-2, and EB-3). Check your priority date to see if you’re eligible to file your Adjustment of Status.

Need assistance understanding your case or priority date?
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10/21/2025

USCIS Issues New Guidance on Family-Based Spousal Petitions

USCIS has released updated policy guidance clarifying qualifying spousal relationships for family-based immigrant petitions under the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA). The update reinforces the requirement that marriages must be legally valid, bona fide, and consistent with U.S. laws and public policy.
It also addresses virtual and same-sex marriages, fraud prevention, and documentation requirements for proving genuine marital relationships. The policy is effective immediately and applies to all pending or newly filed spousal petitions.

💼 Navigating a spousal petition? YZ Law Group can help ensure your petition is compliant, complete, and compelling.

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09/18/2025

USCIS has released the October 2025 Adjustment of Status Filing Charts

If your priority date is earlier than the listed cut-off date (or marked as “C” for current), you may now be eligible to file Form I-485 to adjust status.

✅ EB-1 remains current for most applicants
✅ EB-2 and EB-3 categories have updated filing dates, with backlogs for India and China
✅ Family-based categories also show important updates, with F2A still open

📌 Filing at the right time can help move your green card process forward. Contact us now for guidance.

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09/18/2025

USCIS has reinstated Form I-945, the Public Charge Bond.
This bond may be required in rare cases where USCIS determines an applicant must provide financial assurance that they will not become a public charge in the United States.

✅ Minimum bond amount is $8,100
✅ If conditions are met, the bond can be canceled and refunded
✅ Very few applicants will be affected, but it is important to understand this requirement

While most applicants won’t be impacted, those who are should seek legal guidance. Contact us now for assistance.

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01/20/2025

NIW Success Story:

Field of Research: Biomedical Engineering

The client is from Iran and is currently a second-year PhD student in biomedical sciences at a university in the United States, specializing in medical imaging research. After thorough communication with the client and a detailed assessment of their professional background, we submitted the following evidence to support their case and ensure its successful approval:

Published articles: 5 papers
Article citations: 34
Case submission date: September 30, 2024
Upgrade to premium processing: November 26, 2024
Case approval date: January 2, 2025

09/14/2022

Welcome to our US Immigration webinar on 09/17/2022 at 9PM CDT (presented in Chinese through VooV meeting)

Topic: US employment-based Immigration (EB-1A/EB-1C, NIW, EB2/EB3 PERM)

Time: 09/17/2022 9PM CDT / 7PM PDT/ 10PM EDT

VooV meeting: 880-005-788

08/24/2022

USCIS announced 2023 H-1B Cap has been reached!
Not Selected notices have been sent to registrants.

https://www.uscis.gov/newsroom/alerts/uscis-reaches-fiscal-year-2023-h-1b-cap

USCIS has received a sufficient number of petitions needed to reach the congressionally mandated 65,000 H-1B visa regular cap and the 20,000 H-1B visa U.S. advanced degree exemption, known as the master’s cap, for fiscal year (FY) 2023.

07/21/2022

On July 15, 2022, USCIS announced a further expansion of premium processing, effective August 1, 2022, that will permit upgrade requests for premium processing to be submitted for EB-1C Multinational Executive and Manager Petitions received by the agency on or before July 1, 2021. USCIS further announced that it will accept Form I-907 upgrade requests for Form I-140 on behalf of EB-2 National Interest Waiver (NIW) Petitions received by USCIS on or before August 1, 2021.

On May 24, 2022, USCIS announced that, effective June 1, 2022, it will begin accepting Form I-907 requests for Form I-140, Immigrant Petition for Alien Worker, on behalf of EB-1C Multinational Executive and Manager Petitions received on or before January 1, 2021. USCIS further announced that beginning July 1, 2022, it will accept Form I-907 requests for Form I-140 on behalf of EB-2 National Interest Waiver (NIW) Petitions received on or before June 1, 2021, as well as Forms I-140 filed on behalf of EB-1C Multinational Executive and Manager Petitions received on or before March 1, 2021.

Premium Processing Options as of April 2022

The former Immigration and Nationality Service first introduced Premium Processing in 2001 allowing certain filers to request a 15-day processing of their application if they pay a premium processing fee. This nonwaivable fee has been adjusted over the years from $1,000 to $1,225 and, prior to the Emergency Stopgap USCIS Stabilization Act, DHS last adjusted the fee to $1,440 in 2019. This final rule codifies the fee increases that went into effect on August 1, 2020, and lists the additional visa categories that will become eligible for premium processing. The Table 1 shows benefit categories for which premium processing is fully available and the required processing time frame.

Additions to Premium Processing

Under the final rule, a 45-day premium processing time frame is available for certain petitions requesting EB-1 immigrant classification as a multinational executive or manager (hereinafter “EB-1C”) as well as certain petitions requesting EB-2 immigrant classification and seeking a National Interest Waiver (hereinafter “EB-2 NIW”). In future expansions of premium processing, a 30-day premium processing timeframe will become available to certain Forms I-539 (seeTable 2) and Form I-765.

https://www.uscis.gov/newsroom/alerts/uscis-to-implement-second-phase-of-premium-processing-for-certain-previously-filed-eb-1-and-eb-2

07/20/2022

OFLC Provides Guidance Regarding PERM Job Order Postings in Light of Technical Difficulties Recently Encountered by Many SWAs

July 19, 2022
AILA’s DOL Liaison Committee has been communicating with the Department of Labor’s (DOL) Office of Foreign Labor Certification (OFLC) regarding the impact of technical difficulties encountered with various State Workforce Agency (SWA) websites on the PERM 30-day Job Order requirement.

On June 26, 2022, approximately 40 SWAs were impacted by a cyberattack on the vendor providing various technical services to these SWAs, including the SWAs’ Job Order websites. Most of these SWAs have already resumed regular services.

OFLC responded to the AILA DOL Liaison Committee that the regulatory requirement (20 CFR §656.17(e)(1)(i)(A) and 20 CFR §656.17(e)(2)(i)) is for the Job Order to be placed for 30 days within 30 and 180 days prior to the filing of ETA Form 9089. The start and end dates listed on the ETA Form 9089 serve as documentation of the posting. OFLC recognizes that some SWA Job Order systems have not been functioning, but employers who have posted their Job Orders with those SWAs have made a good faith effort to comply with the posting requirement. OFLC further clarified that, so long as employers properly posted their Job Orders with the SWAs, despite the fact that the SWAs may have subsequently had technical issues during the 30-day period, employers have met the regulatory requirement in good faith and do not have to extend the time to cover any period that the SWA may have had technical issues with its Job Order system.

Please note that, should an employer choose to extend the Job Order posting period, the dates of the posting must still comply with the regulatory requirements, including that the posting end date must not be within 30 days of filing ETA Form 9089.

https://www.aila.org/advo-media/aila-practice-pointers-and-alerts/dol-alert-oflc-aware-of-several-swas-experiencing

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06/24/2022

Fiscal Year 2022 Employment-Based Adjustment of Status FAQs:

https://www.uscis.gov/green-card/green-card-processes-and-procedures/fiscal-year-2022-employment-based-adjustment-of-status-faqs

06/21/2022

USCIS recently announced that certain H-1B petitions and fiscal year (FY) 2023 H-1B cap petitions awaiting intake at the Vermont Service Center (VSC) are being transferred to the California Service Center (CSC) for data entry and adjudication. They are transferring these cases in response to the H-1B receipt issuance delays at the VSC. Please continue to file petitions based on the addresses provided on the Direct Filing Addresses for Form I-129, Petition for a Nonimmigrant Worker page.

This workload transfer will help us issue receipt notices for properly filed H-1B petitions more quickly. Please allow time for the CSC to process the transferred cases and do not submit duplicate petitions out of concern that your previous submission did not arrive or has been misplaced. If your petition is transferred, you will not receive a transfer notice, but you will receive a receipt notice as soon as your petition is receipted. Petitions will be worked to completion at the CSC once transferred. For inquiries about case status, please use the petition receipt number.

USCIS continues to experience receipt issuance delays in other workloads across some service centers, and actively trying to reduce these delays.

Source: https://www.uscis.gov/newsroom/alerts/uscis-transfers-certain-h-1b-petitions-to-the-california-service-center

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services announced today that certain H-1B petitions and fiscal year (FY) 2023 H-1B cap petitions awaiting intake at the Vermont Service Center (VSC) are being transferred to the California Service Center (CSC) for data entry and adjudication.