Immigration Blog

Millions of people around the globe are displaced from their homes by famine, persecution, poverty, civil war, natural disasters and the effects of climate change. The U.S. manages various progra...

The current pandemic has caused unprecedented changes to many aspects of life as we knew it, and immigration is no exception. The public health and economic ramifications of the novel coronavirus a...

Last year, the Administrative Appeals Office of the United States Department of Citizenship and Immigration Services issued a decision that focused on national interest waivers, the EB-2 green card...

After only two months, USCIS approved the above case submitted by Laurie Woog, Esq. on behalf of a venture capital-backed start up in New York that sought to retain a key business partner who is re...

In November 2014, President Obama announced certain executive actions that are meant to reform our immigration system.  The most immediate of these focus on helping children who were brought to the...

Recently, the Woog Law Office obtained an approval for an O-1 visa for a young scientist who is highly skilled in pre-implantation genetic diagnosis, a quickly developing area of genetics and embry...

SAME SEX SPOUSES OF HIGHLY SKILLED IMMIGRANTS: CHANGES IN THE LAW AFTER “DOMA” Recently, the Supreme Court ruled in U.S. v. Windsor that the Defense of Marriage Act, or DOMA, which barred federa...

Recently, the Woog Law Office helped an exceptional academic obtain approval as an Outstanding Professor in the EB-1 category – the I-140 visa petition was approved in just 3 days! The Departmen...

Immigration reform or improvement is often in the news these days. Some reforms will help international students and high tech workers or potential workers. Under current immigration law it is extr...

One of the most challenging areas of immigration law is attempting to obtain legal permanent residence on the basis of a national interest waiver.  The national interest waiver category offers a qu...

A recent decision by USCIS recognizes that fusion or hybrid music can be “culturally unique” and therefore form the basis for P visa eligibility. See: http://usnews.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/05/17/1...

How does someone prove he or she has “extraordinary ability” in a particular field? The United States Citizenship and Immigration Service (USCIS) has set out several basic criteria an applicant mu...