- About
The Immigration Justice Campaign
A joint initiative between the American Immigration Council and AILA seeks to change the playing field for immigrants facing deportation.
- Membership
Eligible to Join AILA?
Apply Today - Advocacy
and MediaTake Action Now
AILA’s Advocacy Action Center allows you to advocate for legislative and policy reforms consistent with AILA’s principles and priorities.
Get Involved - eLearning and
Conferences - Publications
And VideosHot Off the Press
Order Your Copy Today!The brand-new 18th edition of Kurzban's Immigration Law Sourcebook is now shipping.
Order Now- Law
Practice
Learn how to tackle challenges like finding and retaining affordable staff, working better in a hybrid or remote environment, when and how to raise fees, and much more.
Register Now- InfoNet
Research LibraryAILALink
AILALink puts an entire immigration law library at your fingertips! Search the AILALink database for all your practice needs—statutes, regs, case law, agency guidance, publications, and more.
- Recent
PostingsUSCIS Issues Policy Guidance on Job Portability After Filing Application to Adjust Status
AILA Doc. No. 20111732 | Dated November 17, 2020 | File Size: 806 K
Download the DocumentUSCIS issued policy guidance in the USCIS Policy Manual to consolidate and update guidance on the ability to change to a same or similar job, also known as portability, for certain beneficiaries of employment-based immigrant petitions after they have applied to adjust status. This guidance is effective immediately. Comments are due December 17, 2020.
Policy Highlights
- Consolidates existing guidance on determining eligibility to transfer, or “port” including evaluating whether the new job offer is in the same or similar occupational classification as the job specified in the Immigrant Petition for Alien Workers (Form I-140).
- Explains how portability requests are made to and adjudicated by USCIS.
[[To print the PDF on this page please use the print function in the PDF reader.]]
Cite as AILA Doc. No. 20111732.
Open the DocumentTracking USCIS Policy Manual Changes
The USCIS Policy Manual is the agency’s centralized online repository for USCIS’s immigration policies. Use this page to track changes to the USCIS Policy Manual.
View Policy Manual Changes - Law
Navigate AILA.org
American Immigration Lawyers Association
1331 G Street NW, Suite 300
Washington, DC 20005
Copyright © 1993-
American Immigration Lawyers Association.
AILA.org should not be relied upon as the exclusive source for your legal research. Nothing on AILA.org constitutes legal advice, and information on AILA.org is not a substitute for independent legal advice based on a thorough review and analysis of the facts of each individual case, and independent research based on statutory and regulatory authorities, case law, policy guidance, and for procedural issues, federal government websites.