Tag: Card
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Dream Act 2025: Renewed Green Card Prospects for Dreamers and H-1B Holder Children
The Dream Act has been reintroduced in the U.S. Senate by Senator Dick Durbin and Senator Lisa Murkowski. This bipartisan bill would allow Dreamers, the undocumented immigrants who were brought to the United States as children and have lived in the U.S. for most of their lives, to apply for protection from deportation and an…
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Freedom from Holiday Card Stress
I grew up in a house where coordinated family photos were the norm. My mom would line up the four of us kids in matching outfits — one year, freshly pressed sailor suits; the next, velvet dresses, with my brother in a matching tie. Every stray hair would be tucked in or sprayed down. We…
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USCIS Reduces Work Permit Validity to 18 Months, Increasing Concerns for Green Card Applicants and Employers
The Trump administration has moved to sharply curtail the validity of work permits issued to refugees, asylees and several categories of immigrants—including those awaiting green cards—marking another major tightening of the country’s immigration system.The new policy, announced recently by the US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), reduces Employment Authorization Document (EAD) validity from the current…
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Green Card Holder Detained by ICE: Allan Dabrio Marrero’s Plea for His Husband’s Return
A green card applicant was detained by the ICE agents because he missed a piece of mail from the US Citizenship and Immigration Services during a recent move.Allan Dabrio Marrero, who is married to a US citizen, Matthew Marrero, and used to live in the Cayman Islands, was detained by ICE agents last week at…
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Impact of Reduced Employment Authorization Document Validity on Green Card and H-1B Workers
Story in Brief USCIS has reduced the maximum validity period of Employment Authorization Documents (EADs) from 5 years back to 18 months for several categories, effective for applications filed on or after December 5, 2025. The change follows the earlier decision to end automatic EAD extensions, meaning foreign workers must renew early within 180 days…
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Kolkata Police Constable Exam 2025: Admit Card Release and Details
Kolkata Police Constable Admit Card 2025 OUT – Download Hall Ticket at prb.wb.gov.in Kolkata Police Constable Admit Card 2025 has been released by West Bengal Police Recruitment Board on 06 December 2025. Candidates who applied for the Constable and Lady Constable recruitment can download their admit card from the official website prb.wb.gov.in. The preliminary written…
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USCIS Shortens Work Permit Duration for Green Card Applicants to 18 Months
A week after two National Guard members were shot by an Afghan national near the White House, the US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced that it had updated its Policy Manual to slash the validity of work permits issued to many Green Card applicants and other protected immigrants from five years to just 18…