Passports & Visas

This rule updates the DHS practice for notifying the public of countries designated for participation in the Visa Waiver Program (VWP). It amends the definition of "designated country" by referring to countries that the Secretary of Homeland Security...

This final rule makes updates to reflect a statutory change to the class of individuals who may qualify for Special Immigrant Visas (SIVs).

DHS, in consultation with DOL, is exercising time-limited Fiscal Year (FY) 2025 authority and increasing the total number of noncitizens who may receive an H-2B nonimmigrant visa by up to 64,716 for the entirety of FY 2025. These supplemental visas w...

The Department of Labor (Department or DOL) proposes to amend its regulations for employer-provided wage surveys for the H-2B temporary labor certification program. The regulations were published in the Wage Methodology for the Temporary Non-Agricult...

Eligible citizens, nationals, and passport holders from designated Visa Waiver Program countries may apply for admission to the United States at U.S. ports of entry as nonimmigrant noncitizens for a period of ninety days or less for business or pleas...

The Department of State ("Department") is amending a regulation relating to the effect of certain pardons on criminal- related grounds of visa ineligibility.

On August 29, 2011, the Department of Homeland Security published a final rule titled "Immigration Benefits Business Transformation, Increment I," which, in part, amended DHS regulations to remove references to form numbers and titles. Two of the ame...

Pursuant to Department of State regulations, all parents or legal guardians of a U.S. passport applicant under 16 years old must appear in person to execute the minor's passport application unless the applying parent can demonstrate sole authority to...

On January 17, 2017, DHS published a final rule with new regulatory provisions guiding the use of parole on a case-by-case basis with respect to certain entrepreneurs of start-up entities. The 2017 regulation provided that the investment and revenue...

This rule adopts as final the notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) published in the Federal Register on July 26, 2023. This final rule provides that private attorneys, interpreters, and other third parties may attend certain appointments at passport...

On December 19, 2016, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) published an interim final rule (2016 interim rule) amending its regulations governing the requirements and procedures for victims of a severe form of trafficking in persons seeking T no...

The Department of Labor (Department or DOL) is amending its regulations governing the certification of temporary employment of nonimmigrant workers employed in temporary or seasonal agricultural employment and the enforcement of the contractual oblig...

This final rule adjusts certain immigration and naturalization benefit request fees charged by USCIS. This rule also provides additional fee exemptions for certain humanitarian categories and makes changes to certain other immigration benefit request...

This rule amends the Department of Homeland Security regulations to require persons intending to travel to Guam or the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI) under the Guam-CNMI Visa Waiver Program (G-CNMI VWP) to submit Form I-736 elect...

The Department of State ("Department") is amending its regulation governing immigrant visas by removing the section which allows a consular officer to conduct an informal evaluation of the family members of an immigrant visa applicant to identify pot...

DHS, in consultation with DOL, is exercising time-limited Fiscal Year (FY) 2024 authority and increasing the total number of noncitizens who may receive an H-2B nonimmigrant visa by up to 64,716 for the entirety of FY 2024. These supplemental visas w...

Eligible citizens, nationals, and passport holders from designated Visa Waiver Program countries may apply for admission to the United States at U.S. ports of entry as nonimmigrant noncitizens for a period of ninety days or less for business or pleas...

The Department of Labor (Department or DOL) proposes to amend its regulations governing the certification of temporary employment of nonimmigrant workers employed in temporary or seasonal agricultural employment and the enforcement of the contractual...

The Department of State ("Department") has decided not to finalize the regulatory amendments made by the 2019 interim final rule entitled "Visas: Ineligibility Based on Public Charge Grounds" published in the Federal Register on October 11, 2019 ("20...

The Department proposes a rule to provide that private attorneys, interpreters, and other third parties may attend certain appointments at passport agencies and centers and at U.S. embassies and consulates abroad to assist the person requesting servi...