VIA ILW.com

In one of the largest scandals in recent immigration history, out-of-control executive branch agencies entrusted with running a lawful and fair immigration system have cruelly and unjustly dashed the hopes of hundreds of thousands of legal immigrants. The high drama over the last few weeks featured DOS moving heavily retrogressed employment visa numbers (especially for India, China, Mexico and the Phillippines) to current (meaning un-retrogressed), and now to re-retrogressed. Whether DOS/USCIS have the legal authority for this mumbo-jumbo is not clear. Among the practical effects of this is to forbid work authorization to many who would otherwise have been able to legally work (such as H4s), and to forbid travel to many who would otherwise have been making plans to visit loved ones overseas. In addition, of course, USCIS will assess higher fees post-July 30th once the newly increased USCIS fees go into effect.

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