The United States Citizenship and Immigration Service (\u201cUSCIS\u201d) has advised special immigrant religious workers under the Ruiz-Diaz class action lawsuit to file their adjustment applications before the end of August 2009.<\/p>\n
As background, USCIS current regulations prohibit the simultaneous filing of both a special immigrant religious worker immigrant visa petition and the foreign national religious worker\u2019s adjustment of status application. Instead, the special immigrant religious worker visa petition must be filed first, and once approved, the foreign national religious worker may file to adjust status in the United States.<\/p>\n
In the Ruiz-Diaz class action litigation, the District Court for the Western District of Washington entered an order on June 11, 2009, finding that the prohibition on concurrent filings was invalid and unenforceable as applied to religious workers. The Court ordered the USCIS to accept properly filed simultaneous filings of both the special immigrant religious worker petition and the foreign national\u2019s application (more…)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The United States Citizenship and Immigration Service (\u201cUSCIS\u201d) has advised special immigrant religious workers under the Ruiz-Diaz class action lawsuit to file their adjustment applications before the end of August 2009. As background, USCIS current regulations prohibit the simultaneous filing…<\/span><\/p>\n