DOS Visa Bulletin for April 2012. Employment-based priority dates continued to move forward for the month of April. Section C addresses advance notification of diversity (DV) immigrant category rank cut-offs which will apply in May. |
USCIS’s Guide to Naturalization (M-476, revised 12/2011) was released to provide better and more consistent information to people interested in naturalization. |
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Presidential Executive Order 13597 outlining improvements to visa and foreign visitor processing and travel promotion in order to create jobs and spur economic growth in the United States. |
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1/3/12 statistics from DOL’s Office of Foreign Labor Certification for first quarter of FY2012, including total number of applications received, total number of applications processed, PERM processing priority dates, and breakdown of active PERM cases at the DOL. |
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USCIS press release announcing the opening of a new USCIS office in Queens, New York. |