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Dimo Michailov, Esq.

Dimo Michailov

About Dimo Michailov

Dimo has over 15 years of experience in US immigration including employment-based immigration benefits, corporate compliance and family based immigration. He represents corporate and individual clients in a wide range of cross-border immigration matters including mobility of key foreign executives and managers, specialized knowledge workers, and foreign nationals with extraordinary ability.
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New H-1B USCIS/DOL Rules to Increase Prevailing Wages, Tighten Specialty Occupation Definition and Make Third-Party Placements More Difficult

In a coordinated effort, both DHS/USCIS and DOL have just released two new rules which seek to introduce substantial changes to the H-1B program. DOL seeks to increase the prevailing wage levels by a substantial margin with immediate effective date of October 8, 2020. DHS/USCIS seeks to change the definition of specialty occupation and employer-employee [...]

By |2020-12-02T07:53:24-05:00October 7th, 2020|Articles, H-1B, News, News Alert|
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USCIS Filing Fee Increase Blocked by Federal Court

On September 29, 2020, a district court blocked the effective date of the August 2020 Final Rule, which sought to increase the fees (significantly in many cases) for many immigration services in addition to requiring revised forms. See ruling. As a result, the current fee schedule and the current version of the relevant forms continue [...]

By |2020-10-01T13:53:26-04:00October 1st, 2020|Articles, EB-2, EB-3, Fees, News, News Alert|
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October 2020 Visa Bulletin – Major Movement for EB-2 and EB-3 India and China

The U.S. State Department has just released the October 2020 Visa Bulletin which is the first Visa Bulletin for the FY2021 fiscal year. The headline in the upcoming month’s Visa Bulletin is the major forward movement [...]

By |2020-09-24T21:11:49-04:00September 24th, 2020|Articles, EB-2, EB-3, I-485, News, News Alert, Visa Bulletin|
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EB-2 to EB-3 India Downgrading to Benefit from Earlier Priority Date – How and When to Do It? (Updated)

For many years, it has been a true fact of life that an Indian-born applicant can obtain a green card faster under the higher EB-2 preference category (requiring master’s degree or [...]

By |2024-09-24T16:20:18-04:00September 24th, 2020|AAO, AOS, EB-3, I-485, News, News Alert, Visa Bulletin|
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September 2020 Visa Bulletin – Last for Fiscal Year; Not Much Forward Movement

The U.S. State Department has just released the September 2020 Visa Bulletin which is the last Visa Bulletin for the FY2020 fiscal year. The headline in the upcoming month’s Visa Bulletin is the lack of much movement [...]

By |2020-09-24T08:58:30-04:00August 26th, 2020|Articles, News, News Alert, Visa Bulletin|
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August 2020 USCIS Staff Furlough Called Off

USCIS has just made an announcement to its staff and external stakeholders that the administrative staff furlough which was scheduled to begin on August 30, 2020 has been cancelled and the current USCIS staffing levels would remain unchanged. Cost Cutting Measures Means Fewer Contractors and Processing Delays According to USCIS's Deputy Director of Policy, the [...]

By |2020-08-26T21:08:10-04:00August 26th, 2020|Articles, News, News Alert, USCIS|
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Second H-1B Cap Lottery Completed; Newly Selected Petitions Must Be Filed by November 16

On Friday, August 14, 2020, USCIS completed the second round of the H-1B cap selection lottery and notified the selected applicants. The August 2020 selection round was due to the fact that a (significant) number of [...]

By |2020-08-14T10:13:28-04:00August 14th, 2020|Articles, H-1B, News, News Alert|
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Department of State Clarifies and Expands Exceptions to Trump Work Visa Entry Ban

In an August 12, 2020 news alert, the Department of State (DOS) has issued extensive set of clarifications and exemptions to the June 22, 2020 Trump H-1B, H-2B, L-1 and certain J-1 work visa ban (see our article). The DOS clarification provides much needed and welcome guidance of how to make the arguments for national [...]

By |2020-08-13T10:00:59-04:00August 13th, 2020|Articles, DOS, News, News Alert, Travel|
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USCIS Announces Filing Fee Increase Starting October 2

The Department of Homeland Security has just released the final rule that significantly changes the USCIS fee schedule, including adding new fees, establishing multiple fees for nonimmigrant worker petitions and increasing the premium processing time limit. The rule and the new fees [...]

By |2020-07-31T18:20:59-04:00July 31st, 2020|Articles, Fees, News, News Alert|
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USCIS Delays Plans to Furlough 73% of Its Entire Workforce Starting Until August 31st – Major Delays and Disruptions Expected

Update August 26, 2020: USCIS has called off the scheduled furlough. See update. Update July 24, 2020: USCIS has announced that they have agreed to delay the start of the staff furlough until August 31st (from August 3) due to funding estimates showing surplus for the fiscal year and not the previously-projected $571 million deficit. [...]

By |2020-08-26T20:40:59-04:00July 25th, 2020|Articles, News, News Alert, Visa Processing|
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