Sam Adair recently spoke to leading legal publications the Los Angeles and San Francisco Daily Journal and Law360 on a recent U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services memo which could have a major impact on immigration policy in the U.S. The memo states that immigration officials will be allowed to deny outright visa applications without a Request for Evidence (RFEs) or Notice of Intent to Deny (NOIDs). According to Sam, this change could mean that a high number of applications could be denied without a chance for attorneys to provide additional evidence on behalf of their clients.
?How they?re going to determine which application is frivolous versus which is substantive is going to be arbitrary,? said Sam.