The federal government has been shut down as of October 1, 2025. We are providing details on the immigration-related services that are impacted by the shutdown. The biggest impact for employment-immigration matters is disruption in DOL services via FLAG [...]
The U.S. State Department has released the October 2025 Visa Bulletin which is the first Visa Bulletin for the new fiscal year which starts on October 1. The headline in [...]
Effective as of September 6, 2025, the U.S. Department of State (DOS) requires all nonimmigrant visa (NIV) applicants to schedule their interview appointments at the U.S. Embassy [...]
Starting September 2, 2025, the U.S. Department of State (DOS) are narrowing the interview waiver policy and eligibility, effectively ending the interview waiver (aka “dropbox”) for the vast majority of visa applicants. This means that as of September 2, 2025, most U.S. [...]
Many of our readers recall that on December 18, 2024 USCIS released a final rule “Modernizing H-1B Requirements, Providing Flexibility in the F-1 Program, and Program Improvements Affecting Other Nonimmigrant Workers” (also see our analysis) which sought to “modernize” [...]
When submitting any application, petition, or request to U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), the requestor’s signature is crucial. A valid signature confirms that the applicant or petitioner knows, has reviewed, and approves the document’s content, [...]
The U.S. State Department has released the September 2025 Visa Bulletin which is the last Visa Bulletin for the fiscal year. The headline in the month’s Visa Bulletin is the fact that there is not much movement [...]
USCIS has announced that they have reached the H-1B cap limit for fiscal year 2026 (FY 2026) after the initial (and only) selection round. This means that, for the first time ever, they will not be conducting additional [...]
The U.S. State Department has released the July 2025 Visa Bulletin which is the tenth Visa Bulletin for the fiscal year. The headline in the month’s Visa Bulletin is the slowing forward movement (compared to last month) in almost all employment-based [...]
Many of our readers know that the H-1B visa is a critical and very common work visa used routinely by U.S. employers to hire skilled foreign nationals. The H-1B visa has an annual cap for first-time [...]
