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USCIS Issues New Memorandum for Clarifying Guidance on the
Implementation of the Court's Order in Ruiz-Diaz v. United States for
Nonminister Religious Worker Concurrent I-360/I-485 Filing Issues and
Procedures
Apparently, this new memorandum dated 08/05/2009 is issued to clarify
some issue in its initial memorandum on the concurrent filing of I-360/
I-485. Religious entities filing I-360 petition concurrently with the
beneficiary's I-485 application should review this new memorandum to
learn changes from the initial memorandum. Recently, the special
immigration for nonimmigrant religious workers have been witnessing a
lot of ups and downs.
Both the House and the Senate acted on extension of EB-4 nonminister
religious worker special immigration program, but could not complete
it before they went into the summer recess. The Senate passed three-
year extension bill as part of the DHS 2010 Appropriation Bill and
sought the conference process with the House, appointing the memmbers
of the Senate conferees, but the House failed to agree to the request
and appoint its conferees before the summer recess.
Aside from the Senate bill, there was a House bill pending proposing
the same, but it failed to get mark-ups in the House committees before
the summer recess. It is likely that the House and the Senate will
complete the legislation process to extend this program before the
sunset of the program on October 1, 2009, but let's wait and see. Rep.
Zoe Lofgren in the House will not let it dumped.
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