USCIS Issues Guidance Applying Third Circuit's Shalom Pentecostal Decision Nationally | Practical Law

USCIS Issues Guidance Applying Third Circuit's Shalom Pentecostal Decision Nationally | Practical Law

United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) issued a Policy Memorandum specifying that qualifying US work experience for the special immigrant religious worker category is no longer limited to experience gained while in lawful status. The USCIS memorandum applies the US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit decision in Shalom Pentecostal Church v. Acting Sec'y U.S. Dep't of Homeland Sec. nationally.

USCIS Issues Guidance Applying Third Circuit's Shalom Pentecostal Decision Nationally

by Practical Law Labor & Employment
Published on 16 Jul 2015 • USA (National/Federal)
United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) issued a Policy Memorandum specifying that qualifying US work experience for the special immigrant religious worker category is no longer limited to experience gained while in lawful status. The USCIS memorandum applies the US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit decision in Shalom Pentecostal Church v. Acting Sec'y U.S. Dep't of Homeland Sec. nationally.