Deadline approaches to submit online entry for Diversity Visa Lottery

You have until noon on Tuesday, Nov. 3, to submit your online entry for the Diversity Visa Lottery — which gives green cards to 50,000 randomly selected people from countries with relatively low immigration to the U.S.
Natives of most countries qualify — except those from Bangladesh, Brazil, Canada, China, Colombia, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Haiti, India, Jamaica, Mexico, Nigeria, Pakistan, Peru, the Philippines, South Korea, Vietnam, and the United Kingdom and its dependent territories aside from Northern Ireland.
Those born in Northern Ireland as well as Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan are eligible. Winners get their visas during the 2017 fiscal year. Get more information at the Department of State website, usvisas.state.gov. Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/deadline-nears-submit-entry-diversity-visa-lottery-article-1.2390831

Contact Darren Heyman, Immigration attorney Las Vegas, for more information.

Immigration report finds systemic detention failures

Inspections at immigrant detention centers across the country lack legitimacy and are carried out with little oversight or transparency, a new report by two pro-immigrant advocacy groups charges.

The report, released Wednesday by the organizations National Immigration Justice Center and Detention Watch Network, is based on documents obtained through years of litigation and Freedom of Information Act requests examining 105 immigrant detention facilities nationwide. Read more: http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/immigration-report-detention-failures.

Contact Darren Heyman, immigration attorney Las Vegas, for more information.

US visa applicants warned of online scams

Applicants to a US Green Card scheme, which opened earlier this month, have been warned against online fraudsters.

The Diversity Visa Lottery opened on October 1st. It will issue 50,000 visas, with a maximum of 3,500 going to Ireland.

Applicants must have a secondary-level education or two-years work experience in the last five years in an occupation that requires at least two-years training or work experience. See more: http://www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland/irish-news/us-visa-applicants-warned-of-online-scams-1.2390444

Contact Darren Heyman, Las Vegas immigration attorney, for more information.

The new bulletin shows no movement in filing date cutoffs and little movement in approval date cutoffs for those chargeable to India and China.

The November 2015 Visa Bulletin shows little change from the October 2015 Visa Bulletin issued on September 25. The new category of filing date cutoffs remains exactly the same as in October, and only a few visa categories in the Application Final Action Dates chart have changed. This alert addresses employment-based classifications.

- See more at: http://www.natlawreview.com/article/us-department-state-issues-november-2015-visa-bulletin#sthash.R7OzrUSG.dpuf

The new bulletin shows no movement in filing date cutoffs and little movement in approval date cutoffs for those chargeable to India and China.

The November 2015 Visa Bulletin shows little change from the October 2015 Visa Bulletin issued on September 25. The new category of filing date cutoffs remains exactly the same as in October, and only a few visa categories in the Application Final Action Dates chart have changed. This alert addresses employment-based classifications.

- See more at: http://www.natlawreview.com/article/us-department-state-issues-november-2015-visa-bulletin#sthash.R7OzrUSG.dpuf