In the era of increased immigration enforcement under President Trump, our foreign national clients and readers are increasingly asking about the requirements on carrying specific immigration documents with them while they are in the U.S. – whether [...]
As part of a set of rule changes, collectively called “Retention of EB–1, EB–2, and EB–3 Immigrant Workers and Program Improvements Affecting High-Skilled Nonimmigrant Workers” (see our full analysis) and effective as of January 17, 2017, USCIS [...]
On April 3, 2017 the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) will start accepting applications for one of the most popular U.S. work visas, H-1B, for fiscal year (FY) 2018. Our intelligence [...]
During the election campaign, President-elect Trump put immigration at the center of his agenda and platform and made a commitment to the voters to take immediate steps relating to immigration upon taking office on January 20, 2017. There are certain immigration-related steps that [...]
Many of our readers are aware of the way first-time H-1B work visas are allocated – via a random lottery conducted as part of each year’s H-1B cap filing season in early April. The way the lottery is conducted has been kept secret and [...]
The definition of an H-1B dependent employer is important in a number of ways, including due to the H-1B regulations’ certain additional recruitment and attestation requirements to such employers. For H-1B employers, it is important to understand the definition and apply the analysis during each H-1B [...]
The Department of Homeland Security has just released a proposed rule seeking to amend (increase) most of the Citizenship and Immigration (USCIS) application filing fees. The weighted average of the increase is 21 percent and USCIS is adding one new fee. The [...]
Many of our readers are aware that as of April 7, 2016, USCIS had received a sufficient number of H-1B cap-subject petitions to fill the annual H-1B quota. As USCIS has been issuing receipt notices for the H-1B cap cases which are being selected for processing, we wanted to provide an update as to how [...]
Our office just learned that the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service (USCIS) has completed the intake and processing of all of the fiscal year (FY2017) H-1B cap petitions. According to USCIS, there were over 236,000 H-1B cap petitions filed during the April 1st-7th filing period. This indicates that the number of H-1B cap filings this [...]
The U.S. State Department has just released the May 2016 Visa Bulletin which is the eighth Visa Bulletin for the FY2016 fiscal year. The major headline in the upcoming month’s Visa [...]
