This is to inform the general immigrant public that based on the projection on the Visa Bulletin released the by U.S. Department of States for the month of June 2012, the priority dates of petitions filed by U.S. citizens for brothers and sisters in 2001 under the LIFE Act will start to become current effective June 1, 2012.

USI News will like to advise the public that the process of obtaining green card from such petition filed for beneficiaries residing in the U.S. is different from that of beneficiaries who reside abroad. Some overzealous beneficiaries who reside in the U.S. have wasted their money in the past by paying the National Visa Center’s fees. These immigrants receive invoices from the U.S. Department of States agency called the National Visa Center and without consulting with immigration attorneys simply sent money orders to NVC. What a waste of money!

USI News will like to report that there is a recent surge in the number of immigrants being sent to the dreaded Stokes Interview from the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services offices in New York not because Immigration Service Officers (ISO) are becoming more difficult, but because immigrants have gotten themselves into some unexplainable trend of carelessness.

As is widely known, it cost an arm and a leg to file for adjustment of status these days. The USCIS has turned immigrants into piggybanks to drain from in the name of efficiency. Despite this huge cost, most immigrants are not giving their cases the needed attention to guarantee success at their green card interviews. As a result, they end up before Stokes interview officers who in turn destroy their future in the United States with the issuance of denials to seal their future hopes of obtaining permanent resident status in the U.S.