U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services is reinstating its policy of giving deference to previous decisions when processing visa extension applications with substantially the same information.
Tuesday’s announcement reverses a policy put in place by the Trump administration in 2017 that required agency officers to adjudicate requests to extend temporary work visa applications as if they were new, often increasing scrutiny which led to more requests for evidence and use of agency resources.
USCIS said the new policy brings the agency back under “prior long-standing” guidance issued in 2004, which directed officers to generally defer to prior determinations of eligibility when ...
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