Hey everybody, this is Jacob here.
I just wanted to do this quick video to... well, we're basically live right now.
And I just got a notice from USCIS that the policy about issuing notices to appear for
people that either lost their status or got their application denied, and their I-94 expired.
Those... the policy to issue the notices to appear has been put on hold for now.
And essentially what I think has happened is that about a month ago, when the policy
was issued, they had 30 days to come up with procedures and how they actually going to
be doing it.
But as of today, they were not able to obviously issue those procedures.
And so, as of now, the policy to issue notices to appear for people that got their application
denied and have no I-94 that is in status is now put on hold is not effective anymore.
So you'll see a lot of videos on youtube talking about the new NTA policy that if you're here
and your application is denied and essentially you'll be put in proceedings and in deportation.
So as of today, this policy is not effective.
Again, we don't know what's going to happen tomorrow.
We don't know what's going to happen in a few weeks.
But as of now, this is something that is not effective.
So again, maybe some good news and maybe a bit of a relief for some of you guys.
Again, there are a few people watching me live, so if you have any comments or questions
just post them in the comments.
But I just wanted to instead of actually doing a video, I wanted to come on live and announce
this development that just happened today.
So again, USCIS as of now is not continuing with the policy to issue notices to appear,
NTAs, for applications that have been denied or for people that are not in status anymore
because their application has been denied.
So, as of now, there is no policy to issue those NTAs.
Now again, it's a little bit of a surprise but maybe not because we never thought that
they're going to be coming up with procedures in 30 days.
It's a complicated process to serve a notice to appear.
You have to draft it, you have to locate the applicant, you have to create, the court dockets.
And so there's a lot of things that come into an issuing NTA, it just... when they did that,
to me, it was more of a, "We just want to punish these people because they lost their...
the cases were denied and they're here without status."
Anyway, so this is the update.
Again, if you have questions, post them in the comments.
If you have questions right now, I'm doing this from my mobile device, so I can't really
see any of the questions, you see.
But you're welcome to post if you're... you're welcome to post those questions and I'll answer
them later on.
Anyway, thanks for watching.
So once again, those of you who joined right now, I just wanted to announce that USCIS
is going to postpone the implementation of their new policy, which was to issue notices
to appear for people that got their cases denied.
For example, H-1B that were going through extensions or a change of status extensions
or family petitions or waivers.
Those applications, according to the new policy, if they were denied and you didn't have an
I-94 that was valid at the time of the denial, you'd be under that policy that was issued
about a month ago, you will be placed in removal proceedings and an NTA will be issued.
Well, as of now, that policy is now postponed.
So, this is a live update that I'm doing right now.
It's July... right now it's like 2:30 PM.
And let's see, I'll keep you posted, guys.
And those who joined our live broadcast, thanks for watching.
And I will do some more updates in the next few days.
Thanks a lot.
And let me know of any specific questions about this particular development.
Post them in the comments and I'll promise to come back and answer them.
Thanks, guys.
Have a beautiful day, a beautiful Monday.