The U.S. State Department has released the September 2023 Visa Bulletin which is the twelfth and final Visa Bulletin for the fiscal year. The headline in the upcoming month’s Visa Bulletin is the fact that [...]
The U.S. State Department has just released the August 2023 Visa Bulletin which is the eleventh Visa Bulletin for the fiscal year. The headline in the upcoming month’s Visa Bulletin is cutoff date introduction for EB-1 Rest [...]
The I-140 EAD rule was introduced back in 2016 as part of a final rule entitled “Retention of EB–1, EB–2, and EB–3 Immigrant Workers and Program Improvements Affecting High-Skilled Nonimmigrant Workers” [commonly known as the “High-Skilled” Final Rule] and, as a result, USCIS amended its regulations to allow certain nonimmigrants with approved Form I-140 petitions [...]
USCIS has finally released details of the numbers of H-1B cap registrations for the upcoming fiscal year and the numbers are well above expectations in a number of ways. USCIS reported that out of a total of 780,888 [...]
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The U.S. State Department has just released the April 2023 Visa Bulletin which is the seventh Visa Bulletin for the fiscal year. The headline in the upcoming month’s Visa Bulletin is the retrogression in EB-2 preference categories and the cutoff date [...]
Today, March 23, 2023, is the end of the set of COVID-related flexibilities instituted at the beginning of the pandemic in March of 2020. The end of these flexibilities means that there are no longer additional grace periods and automatic deadline extensions [...]
The U.S. State Department has just released the March 2023 Visa Bulletin which is the sixth Visa Bulletin for the fiscal year. The headline in the upcoming month’s Visa Bulletin is the lack of any notable movement in the cutoff dates [...]
U.S. permanent residents (green card holders) who spend extended period of time are likely (or should be) aware that the reentry permit is a document, issued by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service (USCIS) allowing its holder to remain outside of the U.S. for an extended period of time without causing their green card to be [...]
In a legal settlement USCIS has agreed to reinstate its procedure to “bundle” and review concurrently spouses’ H-4/EAD and L-2/EAD applications when such applications are filed concurrently with an underlying I-129 petition seeking H-1B (or L-1) for the [...]
