UICIS has updated the following immigration forms updates:
- Form I-854, Inter-Agency Alien Witness and Informant Record-Edition Date: 12/12/24. Starting March 13, 2025, UICIS will accept only the 12/12/24 edition. Until then, you can also use the 04/01/24 edition. You can find the edition date at the bottom of the page on the form and instructions.
- Form I-134, Declaration of Financial Support-Edition Date: 12/12/24. Starting March 13, 2025, UICIS will accept only the 12/12/24 edition. Until then, you can also use the 11/09/23 edition. You can find the edition date at the bottom of the page on the form and instructions.
These updates are part of a series of ongoing form updates. Added changes are foreseeable particularly in light of the impending change of administration and the expected immigration changes from the incoming Trump Administration. Impacted parties should ensure use of the appropriate forms in light of these and other changes.
The author of this update, Cynthia Marcotte Stamer is an American College of Employee Benefits Counsel Fellow and attorney board certified in Labor and Employment Law by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization, who has decades of experience advising employers, health care providers, health plans and insurers, third party administrators, managed care and other health care payers and providers, technology, and other businesses about these and other compliance, risk management and operational matters. If you have questions or need advice or help evaluating or addressing these or other compliance, risk management, or other concerns, contact her.
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Recognized by her peers as a Martindale-Hubble “AV-Preeminent” (Top 1%) and “Top Rated Lawyer” with special recognition LexisNexis® Martindale-Hubbell® as “LEGAL LEADER™ Texas Top Rated Lawyer” in Health Care Law and Labor and Employment Law; as among the “Best Lawyers In Dallas” for her work in the fields of “Labor & Employment,” “Tax: ERISA & Employee Benefits,” “Health Care” and “Business and Commercial Law” by D Magazine, Cynthia Marcotte Stamer is a practicing attorney board certified in labor and employment law by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization and management consultant, author, public policy advocate and lecturer widely known for her more than 35 years of health, insurance, employment and employee benefits and other industry management work, public policy leadership and advocacy, coaching, teachings, and publications including leading-edge work on crisis preparedness, response and recovery.
Author of many highly regarded compliance and risk management tools, training and other resources on health and other employee benefits, health care, insurance, workforce and other risk management and compliance, Ms. Stamer is widely recognized for her thought leadership and advocacy on these matters.
In addition, Ms. Stamer serves as a Scribe for the American Bar Association (“ABA”) Joint Committee on Employee Benefits annual agency meetings with OCR and shares her thought leadership as International Section Life Sciences Committee Vice Chair, and a former Council Representative, Past Chair of the ABA Managed Care & Insurance Interest Group, former Vice President and Executive Director of the North Texas Health Care Compliance Professionals Association, past Board President of Richardson Development Center (now Warren Center) for Children Early Childhood Intervention Agency, past North Texas United Way Long Range Planning Committee Member, and past Board Member and Compliance Chair of the National Kidney Foundation of North Texas, and a Fellow in the American College of Employee Benefit Counsel, the American Bar Foundation and the Texas Bar Foundation, Ms. Stamer also shares her extensive publications and thought leadership as well as leadership involvement in a broad range of other professional and civic organizations.
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