Posts Tagged ‘extension’
Japanese Nationals In The U.S. Permitted To Stay 30 Extra Days
Due to the earthquake and tsunami devastation in Japan, the USCIS has issued an advisory stating that Japanese nationals who have exceeded or are about to exceed their authorized stay in the U.S. are permitted to remain in the U.S. an additional 30 days.
Japanese nationals with nonimmigrant visas must visit a USCIS local office nearest their location to obtain this extension. Visa Waiver Program participants must visit Customs and Border Protection (CBP) at an airport or a USCIS local office.
Tags: earthquake, extension, Japan, tsunami, visa, Visa Waiver Program
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ALERT: California DMV Will No Longer Issue Interim Extensions
As of January 2010, the California Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) has stopped issuing interim driver’s license extensions of any length using USCIS receipt notices. Previously, the DMV would allow foreign nationals with pending immigration petitions to extend their driver’s license by presenting a proper USCIS receipt notice showing they have a matter pending. This is no longer the case. An agency-wide policy has gone into effect (with no exceptions) that individuals must present a USCIS approval notice with a validity date beyond the expiration date on their current driver’s license to receive an extension.
Please contact our San Francisco immigration law firm if you have any questions about the above.
Tags: CA driver's license, DMV, extension
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Visa Extensions: A Problem?
Many of my immigration attorney colleagues are reporting denials of visa extension requests. These are situations where the foreign national is already in the U.S. working legally; but when it comes time to renew the visa, the USCIS says no.
If your status is about to expire, do not think that the USCIS will simply rubber stamp a prior approval and extend your visa. Now more than ever it is important to thoroughly document your eligibility again even if nothing about the employment situation has changed. What was approved once will not necessarily be approved again.
Although most reported cases I’ve heard about involve denials of L-1, O-1 and H-1B visa extensions, other visa types are not remotely immune to the culture of no that pervades USCIS these days.
In fact, just this past weekend, the New York Times reported that E-2 visas are becoming difficult to extend. See http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/30/us/30visas.html?pagewanted=2&sq=E-2%20visa&st=cse&scp=1 for a woeful tale of a business forced to shut down because its British proprietors were not able to renew their visas.
Tags: E-2, extension, H-1B, L-1A, O-1, renew, visa
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