Category : AAO

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) recently issued draft guidance following its Administrative Appeals Office (AAO) precedent decision, Matter of Simeio Solutions, LLC, which held that an employer must file… Read More

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services’ (USCIS) Administrative Appeals Office (AAO) recently decided two cases of interest. In Matter of Leaching International, Inc., 26 I&N Dec. 532 (AAO 2015), in which… Read More

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services’ Administrative Appeals Office (AAO) is seeking amicus curiae (friend of the court) briefs from stakeholders concerning whether beneficiaries of certain immigrant visa petitions have a… Read More

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit recently reversed and remanded the district court’s grant of summary judgment to the government in Fogo de Chao (Holdings)… Read More

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) recently published an Administrative Appeals Office (AAO) decision affirming denial of a proposal for a regional center designation. The AAO found that the applicant’s… Read More

The Alliance of Business Immigration Lawyers (ABIL) is preparing an amicus curiae (“friend of the court”) brief (PDF) to the Administrative Appeals Office (AAO) in response to U.S. Citizenship and… Read More

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced on October 20, 2010, that it has issued two decisions from the Administrative Appeals Office (AAO) as binding precedent for the agency. The… Read More