USCIS (U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services) is working against a September 30 deadline to reissue 280,000 available green cards and avoid the repeat of unused ones that happened last year. In 2021 during the pandemic, tens of thousands of green cards expired unused due to backlogs and long processing times. The 280,000 employment-based green cards would help foreign workers fill jobs during the U.S. labor shortage.
USCIS has taken steps to meet the September 30 deadline to reissue the green cards:
A USCIS official said, “We want to get them all through the process as efficiently as possible.”
Immigration law can be confusing, and it changes frequently. It is important to have legal guidance from a knowledgeable attorney. The immigration attorneys at Godoy Law Office in Chicago and Oak Brook can help you with your immigration case. If you need help with an immigration issue, please contact our office or call us at 630-912-0322.
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Immigration Attorney Mario Godoy has years of experience guiding clients with immigration issues through the immigration process along with guiding clients through the criminal case. Godoy focuses on family-based immigration law, business immigration law, removal defense, and criminal defense representation of immigrants. A criminal charge or conviction can be devastating to your immigration case. With over a decade of immigration law experience and memories of family members who were deported due to bad legal advice, Godoy is committed to helping other immigrant families receive the legal justice they deserve. As a legal entrepreneur who practices immigration law, criminal law, estate and probate law, and running two successful law firms, Mario Godoy understands the importance of keeping families together and making a home and future in America.
