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Volume Sixteen, Number Ten
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TABLE OF CONTENTS:
3. Schedule of Shusterman’s Upcoming Immigration Law Seminars
8. Official Immigration Government Processing Times
10. Winner of Our September 2011 Trivia Quiz!
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NEWS FLASHES:
- H-1B Cap Update – The USCIS started accepting H-1B petitions subject to the numerical caps starting on April 1. The number of petitions submitted through August 26th was 44,900. We update the number of H-1B petitions received by the USCIS on a weekly basis.
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3. Schedule of Shusterman’s Upcoming Immigration Law Seminars
- AILA California Chapters
24th Annual CLE Conference
San Francisco, CA
November 10-12, 2011
Topic: “Practicing Before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit”
Details will appear in a future newsletter
- South Florida AILA Chapter
South Florida AILA Conference
Miami, Florida
February 9-10, 2012
Topic: Understanding the Child Status Protection Act
- Immigration Boot Camp
Pincus International
Los Angeles, CaliforniaMarch 2012
Details will appear in a future newsletter
- FBA 8th Annual Immigration Law Seminar
Federal Bar Association
Memphis, Tennessee
May 2012
Details will appear in a future newsletter
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5. Success Story:
6. Immigration Trivia Quiz:
This month’s Immigration Trivia Quiz is entitled “Sliding and Grinding Their Way Across Borders: Immigrants in Extreme Sports.”
The first person to correctly answer our quiz (and supply their biographical information) wins a free legal consultation with me before the end of September.
7. Ask Mr. Shusterman:
8. Official Immigration Government Processing Times
* Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS)
The Immigration Service (USCIS) lists its processing times for immigration petitions and applications on their website. Most immigration applications and petitions must be submitted to one of the following USCIS Service Centers: (1) Laguna Niguel, California; (2) Lincoln, Nebraska; (3) Mesquite, Texas; and (4) St. Albans, Vermont and (5) the National Benefits Center in Missouri.
These service centers periodically issue lists of their processing times for various types of petitions and applications. We link to the latest list issued by each service center.
Warning: Processing times may appear faster on the official lists than they are in reality.
To see how fast (or slow) your service center or local USCIS office is processing a particular type of petition or application, seeGovernment Processing Times Page.
Administrative appeals of most types of petitions and waivers denied by the USCIS are adjudicated by the agency’s Administrative Appeals Office (AAO) in Washington, DC.
We link to the AAO’s most recent published processing times (August 1, 2011).
* Department of Labor
The Labor Department’s website contains a tab entitled “PERM Processing Times”. This enables you to see how long it is taking the Labor Department to complete its final review of standard PERM applications, audited cases, standard appeals and appeals where there are government errors.
* Department of State
The State Department’s website contains a “Visa Wait List” page, which permits readers to choose a particular U.S. consular post and learn how long it takes the post to process various types of temporary, nonimmigrant visas.
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10. Winner of our September 2011 Immigration Trivia Quiz!
August’s Immigration Trivia Quiz was entitled “Musical Magicians: Immigrant Conductors“.
This month’s winner:
Here are the answers:
1. Andre Previn, Germany
2. Miguel Harth-Bedoya, Peru
3. Lorin Maazel, France
Carl Shusterman
Certified Specialist in Immigration Law, State Bar of California (1988-Present)
Former Immigration and Naturalization Service Trial Attorney (1976-82)
Board of Governors, American Immigration Lawyers Association (1988-97)
Law Offices of Carl Shusterman, 600 Wilshire Blvd., Suite 1550
Los Angeles, CA 90017, Phone: (213) 891-9100 x0, Fax: (213) 623-3720
Immigration is, on the whole, good for economies; and right now, rich countries can do with all the economic help they can get. Rather than sending immigrants home, with their skills, energy, ideas and willingness to work, governments should be encouraging them to come. If they don’t, governments elsewhere will.”
– The Economist, August 27, 2011.
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