Stateside Waiver Processing Archives

In Other News: CLINIC’s Update on Provisional Waivers

October 4, 2013

Despite the government shutdown, USCIS carries on processing applications and petitions at its glacial pace as usual, including the large number of provisional unlawful presence waiver applications (I-601As) that have been filed since they were...

Immigration Briefing Publishes Dree Collopy’s Article on I-601A Provisional Waivers

September 13, 2013

In June 2013, Immigration Briefings, a West publication serving lawyers, published Dree Collopy's article entitled "I-601A Provisional Unlawful Presence: A Practitioner's Guide for Preserving Family Unity." (June2013_IB) Intended to help attorneys navigate the new legal...

Some Provisional News on Provisional Waivers

July 23, 2013

It has been four months since the U.S. Citizenship & Immigration Service (CIS) began stateside adjudication of I-601A Applications for Provisional Waivers of inadmissibility due to unlawful presence. In those four months, we have learned...

Stateside Waivers Have Arrived

March 4, 2013

Sixty agonizingly long days after final regulations were published, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) this morning released Form I-601A, Application for Provisional Unlawful Presence Waiver, and its accompanying instructions. In previous posts, we discussed...

The I-601A is Almost Here

March 1, 2013

We are now days away from the launch of the provisional waiver process, a White House initiative that will permit immediate relatives of U.S. citizens to stay in the country while immigration officials process their...

Should I Seek a Provisional Waiver or Just Wait for Immigration Reform?

February 13, 2013

The optimism and hope that have been generated by all of the hype around immigration reform has been intense. Every day, a new prominent political figure comes out in favor of immigration reform. Look, Sean...

What is Extreme Hardship?

January 28, 2013

With all the excitement and buzz about the new I-601A Provisional Waiver process, described in Benach Collopy’s live video chat and our previous posts, it is important to remember that what has changed for certain...

10 Facts About the New Provisional Waiver Process

January 2, 2013

Today, the USCIS finally published the much-awaited rule on the unlawful presence waiver (I-601A), which will take effect on March 4, 2013. We previewed this development in this blog in October 2012. This is an enormous...

Stateside Unlawful Presence Waivers Coming Soon

October 19, 2012

The CIS has announced that a major change to the way that it processes waivers for unlawful presence will be finalized by the end of the year. This change has the potential to help thousands...