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How does USCIS determine its decisions regarding NIW cases?

April 26, 2017cases decisions determine niw USCIS

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How does USCIS determine its decisions regarding NIW cases?

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Before August 1998, the USCIS (then called the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS)) took a liberal stance in deciding NIW cases. However, the decision in re New York State Department of Transportation on August 7, 1998 by the Administrative Appeal Unit of the USCIS tightened the standard applied to NIW cases.