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USCIS accounts are flashing 'EAD revoked' right after green card approvals. It's routine cleanup: your green card already authorizes work, so the card is moot.
A PhD student from a paused country asked whether to upgrade an EB-2 I-140 to premium processing. The answer: save the money, because USCIS isn't honoring it.
ICE detained an H-1B worker with a pending extension at an airport, misreading the 240-day rule. What the law actually says and what to carry when you fly.
An R-1 minister's green card runs through the jammed EB-4 category. Here's what the I-360 really requires and the R-1-to-H-1B workaround lawyers use.
Public charge won't sink an EB-2 NIW green card because you have a disabled child. An approved I-140 is strong evidence you can support your family.
A TN worker filed a Cuban Adjustment Act green card for himself, not his TD-visa wife. When he adjusts, her derivative status collapses, and she has no case.
With work-permit approvals stalling during adjustment of status, keeping a valid O-1 is the backup that lets an O-1 holder keep working while the green card sits.
A TN worker hid a pending I-140 from a border officer, then filed a DS-260. Why the immigrant visa case is dead and what the honest next step is.
NOIDs, notices of intent to revoke, and H-1B denials are ticking up. Attorneys say the safest move is to be adjudicated before the I-94 expires, because a denial after it lapses can mean leaving the country, where the contested $100,000 fee could apply on return.
H-4 EAD adjudications have slowed to six, seven, and eight months under USCIS Director Joseph Edlow, and the automatic extension that once bridged renewal gaps ended October 30, 2025. Attorneys are filing mandamus at the three-month mark.
An H-4 EAD holder can generally own an S corporation. The confusion comes from applying the immigration definition of 'resident' instead of the IRS one. The S-corp bar is on nonresident aliens, and tax residency turns on the substantial presence test.
Replacing a lost EAD can return a card that expires years before the original — so renew on the new date, and hand the employer the card that is valid.
An approved I-140 is only a place in line. Employment-based adjustment needs a valid permanent job offer from the right employer — at filing and at approval.
INA 245(k) forgives up to 180 days of status violations for employment-based adjustment — but it never excuses fraud, and USCIS is pulling old visa records at interviews.
An EAD and advance parole let you work and travel on a pending I-485 — but if the green card is denied, maintained H-1B status is what stops unlawful presence.
An advanced degree and a strong personal story used to carry an EB-2 NIW petition through Matter of Dhanasar's three prongs. Under the current adjudication posture, USCIS is reading prong two — 'well positioned to advance the endeavor' — as an evidence test self-petitioners without publications keep failing.
A self-filed EB-1A with an approved C09 EAD, a STEM OPT extension USCIS will not adjudicate, and a cap-exempt H-1B offer the employer is afraid will hurt the green card case. The framework for ordering these filings turns on a narrower question than most callers ask: what status do you fall back to if USCIS denies the I-485?
An L-1A executive from one of the restricted countries filed an EB-1C I-140 with premium processing in November 2025. Seven months later, USCIS has not adjudicated it. The fix the petitioner reached for — joining a coordinated multi-plaintiff lawsuit — is the same one being assembled across the L-1 community.
USCIS's December 2025 country-based pauses and the wind-down of CHNV parole have produced a category of applicant who is married to a U.S. citizen, lawfully present, and unable to work. Sixteen-month EAD delays are routine. Attorneys are turning to mandamus and individual APA suits.