Update: March 2024. Starting FY2025 H-1B cap season, USCIS will switch to beneficiary-centric selection process which will count each beneficiary only once for registration selection purposes. See more details about the new rule. Update: March 2022. Starting FY2023 H-1B cap season, USCIS requires H-1B registrant employers to make an additional attestation which reads, I further [...]
The U.S. State Department has just released the March 2022 Visa Bulletin which is the sixth Visa Bulletin for the new fiscal year. The headline in the upcoming month’s Visa Bulletin is the lack of movement across most [...]
On January 21, 2022, USCIS announced a revised procedure regarding the process of transferring the underlying basis of a Form I-485 to a different employment-based I-140 preference category (a process often called “interfiling”). If an I-485 applicant has [...]
The U.S. State Department has just released the February 2022 Visa Bulletin which is the fifth Visa Bulletin for the new fiscal year. The headline in the upcoming month’s Visa Bulletin is the lack of movement across [...]
The U.S. State Department has just released the January 2022 Visa Bulletin which is the fourth Visa Bulletin for the new fiscal year. The headline in the upcoming month’s Visa Bulletin is the lack of movement across most categories with only [...]
USCIS has just completed the third round of the H-1B cap selection lottery and notified the selected applicants. The November 2021 selection round was due to the fact that a (still significant) number of H-1B cap [...]
The U.S. State Department has just released the December 2021 Visa Bulletin which is the third Visa Bulletin for the new fiscal year. The headline in the upcoming month’s Visa Bulletin is the significant (but expected) forward movement in [...]
In a legal settlement effective as of November 10, 2021, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has agreed to change its policies regarding L-2 and H-4 employment authorization document (EAD) applications. USCIS was challenged in a lawsuit (Shergill et al, v Mayorkas, 21-cv-1296-RSM) as a result of long-delayed EAD applications for certain nonimmigrant spouses. Under [...]
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has announced that as of December 1, 2021, citizens of Croatia will be able to apply to travel to the United States for tourism or business purposes for up to 90 days without obtaining a U.S. visa under the Visa Waiver Program (VWP). ESTA Authorization Required Under [...]
The Biden Administration has just announced details about the anticipated rescission of the per-country travel restrictions on international travelers coming into the United States from certain countries. The travel and visa bans for all affected countries are being lifted starting November 8, 2021. The bans are replaced by more stringent vaccination and testing U.S. entry [...]
