Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals Processing Recent Statistics

On June 15, 2012, President Obama signed a memo calling for deferred action for certain undocumented young people who came to the U.S. as children and have pursued education or military service here.  Applications under the program which is called Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (“DACA”) begin on August 15, 2012.

When DACA went into effect last August it offered them a temporary reprieve from deportation, authorization to work and the ability to get a temporary social security card and drivers license.

2015 DV Lottery Opens on October 1, 2013

While Congress has been discussing changes to immigration policy through new immigration bills, President Obama has not yet signed any immigration bill into law.

Just last year, at least 8 million foreigners submitted a green card application through the green card lottery. Only 55,000 green card applications were able to obtain a green card for themselves, their spouses, and their children.

F2A is no longer current

As our firm predicted, F2A, the family based category for green cards was no longer current in October.

The F2A refers to the minor unmarried children and spouses of green card holders which was current from August 1 through September 30, 2013, but it will retrogress for October and probably for much longer after that.