Business Immigration Insights

The State Department has published the November Visa Bulletin. Once again, it shows modest advances in priority dates, from 2 weeks to 5 months, though some categories remain unchanged from October. Moreover, USCIS has announced it will once again use the Dates for Filing chart in November, thereby allowing from 1.5 months to more than 2 years of additional filing time depending on nationality and category.

Just as Temporary Protected Status (TPS) was set to expire yesterday for Ukrainians and Sudanese nationals, DHS announced that while a formal decision on these programs will be announced in due course, for now, TPS protections and work authorization remain in effect. 

DHS finalized its 2025 interim rule that materially affects individuals applying to renew their employment authorization documents (EADs), as well as their employers. The final rule does not affect pending EAD applications received by USCIS before October 30, 2025, nor does it affect EADs that were automatically extended before that date.