The U.S. State Department has released the August 2024 Visa Bulletin which is the eleventh Visa Bulletin for the fiscal year. The headline in the upcoming month’s Visa Bulletin is the lack of notable [...]
The U.S. State Department has released the July 2024 Visa Bulletin which is the tenth Visa Bulletin for the fiscal year. The headline in the upcoming month’s Visa Bulletin is the notable forward movement in EB-1/EB-2/EB-3 India and [...]
The U.S. State Department has released the June 2024 Visa Bulletin which is the ninth Visa Bulletin for the new fiscal year. The headline in the upcoming month’s Visa Bulletin is (again) the lack of any meaningful movement across any of [...]
The U.S. State Department has released the May 2024 Visa Bulletin which is the eighth Visa Bulletin for the new fiscal year. The headline in the upcoming month’s Visa Bulletin is the lack of any meaningful movement across any of the employment-based [...]
USCIS has just released a new new temporary final rule (link to rule) effective as of April 8, 2024 pursuant to which the EAD auto-extension period is increased (again) from up to 180 days to up to 540 [...]
Lawful Permanent Residents (LPRs) who travel frequently outside of the U.S. and spend extended periods of time at a time (during a single trip or through pattern of shorter but frequent trips abroad) are often questioned at the [...]
The U.S. State Department has released the April 2024 Visa Bulletin which is the seventh Visa Bulletin for the new fiscal year. The headline in the upcoming month’s Visa Bulletin is positive forward movement: notable forward movement in [...]
Many of our clients and readers are aware that the Department of Homeland Security is significantly increasing the USCIS filing fees starting April 1, 2024. We published a detailed alert for all of the fees (see details); however, for [...]
The U.S. State Department has released the March 2024 Visa Bulletin which is the sixth Visa Bulletin for the new fiscal year. The headline in the upcoming month’s Visa Bulletin is the anemic forward movement across most employment-based categories together [...]
In a new final rule USCIS is changing the process it selects H-1B cap registrants during the annual “cap” lottery selection process. Starting with this year, the new process will be based on “beneficiary-centric” selection which means that [...]
