January 23, 2023
A class of nonimmigrant spouses who sued the U.S. Department of Homeland Security over processing delays of their visas and work permits has reached a settlement with the department that their attorney on Monday said brings back a "sense of sanity."
July 06, 2022
A Washington federal judge has denied the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's bid for an early win in a case lodged by nonimmigrant spouses who sued the department for delaying visa and work authorization decisions, saying the spouses still had live claims.
June 30, 2021
The government and a cohort of 178 spouses who followed their partners to the U.S. each called on a federal judge to decide whether authorities unreasonably delayed their work permits in a pair of crisscrossing motions for summary judgment this week.
May 04, 2021
The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services is planning to suspend a Trump-era rule that required spouses of work-visa holders to submit to biometric screening requirements as part of their work permit applications, according to a tweet posted Tuesday from the immigration law firm Wasden Banias.
March 23, 2021
U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas is facing a proposed class action on behalf of the allegedly thousands of H-4 and L-2 spousal visa holders whose visa and work permit extension requests have been unnecessarily delayed.