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 [...]
As the H-1B cap filing season is well underway and as the first filing day of March 1st is approaching fast, a common question by H-1B employers or H-1B candidates is whether an H-1B cap petition can (or should) be filed when the foreign national employee is still completing their degree program. This is very [...]
The U.S. State Department has released the February 2024 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 notable movement among most employment-based categories [...]
One of the happiest moments for an I-485 Adjustment of Status applicant is the day their employment-based I-485 is approved and their green card is ordered for production in mailing. However, [...]
The Department of Homeland Security has announced an inflation-based increase of the I-907 premium processing filing fee starting February 26, 2024. The most common $2,500 premium processing filing fee goes up to $2,805 with an average increase of [...]
Earlier this afternoon the Department of State (DOS) shared the Federal Register notice with details of the highly-anticipated stateside visa renewal pilot program which will begin on January 29, 2024 and will end on April 1, 2024. We [...]
Dear Clients and Readers: We would like to take a moment to express our gratitude for your support throughout these challenging year. We are happy and privileged to have you as clients and readers and we wish you the happiest of holidays! We are looking forward to working with you during the new year. Have [...]
The new H-1B work visa “cap” season is set to begin by using the same lottery process introduced and used over the past four years. The lottery registration window will open on [...]
USCIS has announced that they have reached the H-1B cap limit for fiscal year 2024 (FY 2024). This means that they will not be conducting additional lottery rounds of selection after the initial two rounds. This also means [...]
The U.S. State Department has released the January 2024 Visa Bulletin which is the fourth Visa Bulletin for the new fiscal year. The headline in the upcoming month’s Visa Bulletin is the significant (although not full) recovery among [...]
