Anastasia Tonello speaks to NBC regarding US green card delays
17 October 2018
Managing Partner and head of the US Practice Anastasia Tonello comments on the growing delays experienced by immigrant visa applicants. She notes that the current administration’s policy changes have placed added pressure on an already strained system for issuing green cards.
With the phasing in of interviews for employment-based green card applicants, Anastasia points out that the addition of these applicants to the pool of family-based applicants require to interview places an enormous demand on the same number of immigration officers at local-level USCIS offices.
Read the full NBC article here.
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