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Share Your Knowledge, Experience and Stories

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ImmigrationRoad.com was founded in 2007, as a hobby Website to share the stuff I learned while pursuing a green card. Never did I imagine it would grow so fast, so big, in just three years. With some help along the way, we now publish articles on nearly every aspect of the immigration process, in addition … Read more

Chinese New Year’s Day 1984 – 2043

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2011 Chinese New Year is just around the corner. I was looking for the exact date this morning and realized none of my calendars actually showed it. I went online and clicked quite a few pages before I found it – February 3, Thursday, 2011. So I compiled a list, mostly from Wikipedia, that includes … Read more

What is “Class of Admission” on Form I-90?

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A reader asked a question about Class of Admission while filling out Form I-90, Application to Replace Permanent Resident Card. I did a little Googling and apparently many people are confused by the term USCIS used, especially if they entered the U.S. on a nonimmigrant visa which also belongs to a certain class of admission. … Read more

Is It Easier to Get B Visa in China Now?

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The most recent B visa refusal rate released by the Department of State shows an interesting trend in China: it has been heading lower and lower in recent years. In 2006, 24.5% of B visa applications, including B1, B2 and B1/B2, were rejected in China. In FY2010, the refusal rate was down to 13.3%. See … Read more

Visa Bulletin Predictions – How Did DOS Do

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The Department of State’s Visa Office offered their predictions on visa number availability by the end of fiscal year 2010, which ends on September 30, 2010. Below is the result; draw your own conclusions: Employment Second (EB-2): Predictions (January, 2010) Predictions (July, 2010) Results (September, 2010) China: October through December 2005 March or April 2006 … Read more

Shorter URL Addresses for ImmigrationRoad.com

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Now that everybody owns a smart phone – everybody, except me – I can’t be too selfish anymore. Although I love our name, ImmigrationRoad.com, I have to say that it is a bit long if you must type every character on a 4″ screen with a virtual keyboard. So over the weekend I registered two … Read more

Leaked USCIS MEMO on Potential Immigration Policy Changes

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A leaked USCIS document has been quickly circling the blogsphere in the past couple of days . Titled “Administrative Alternatives to Comprehensive Immigration Reform,” the internal memo offered a variety of options – relief options – to “promote family unity, foster economic growth, achieve significant process improvements and reduce the threat of removal for certain … Read more

USCIS Top-10 Issues List

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USCIS calls it First Ten Areas of Focus for Agency-wide Policy Review, and I renamed it to the Top-10 Issues List.

This is a list USCIS compiled after conducting a survey three months ago asking your input on the areas that USCIS should review their policies and make changes first. It was an important study, and we called for actions in our community forum. Hopefully you had a chance to voice your opinion at that time.

After “nearly 5,600 stakeholders responded to the survey, representing current immigrant and non-immigrant visa holders, employers, immigration attorneys and advocates, among others, in addition to responses from approximately 2,400 members of the USCIS workforce,” the Top-10 list is quite extensive and other than a couple items, I think it hit the nail on the head:

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