The Edakunni settlement pursuant to which USCIS agreed to bundle and approve at the same time concurrently-filed I-539/I-765 applications for H-4/L-2 and H-4 EAD with an underlying I-129 H-1B or L-1 petition is set to expire on January 18, 2025. We anticipate that USCIS will stop the bundling of concurrently-filed H-4/L-2/EAD applications with H-1B/L-1 [...]
The U.S. State Department has released the February 2025 Visa Bulletin which is the fifth Visa Bulletin for the fiscal year. The headline in the month’s Visa Bulletin is the lack movement in any of the preference categories with the exception of EB [...]
USCIS has just released the December 18, 2024 final rule “Modernizing H-1B Requirements, Providing Flexibility in the F-1 Program, and Program Improvements Affecting Other Nonimmigrant Workers” which seeks to “modernize” the H-1B program [...]
The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service (“USCIS”) have recently changed their policy and starting December 2, 2024 they will require Form I-693, Report of Medical Examination and Vaccination Record to be submitted at the same time with [...]
The new H-1B work visa “cap” season is set to begin by using the same lottery process introduced and used over the past five years. The lottery registration window is expected to open around [...]
USCIS has announced that they have reached the H-1B cap limit for fiscal year 2025 (FY 2025). 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 December 2024 Visa Bulletin which is the third Visa Bulletin for the new fiscal year. The headline in the month’s Visa Bulletin is the fact [...]
Based on the election campaign and results, it is clear that the second Trump administration will bring significant changes and challenges to most (if not all) immigration processes. We explore the potential directions a second Trump administration could [...]
The U.S. State Department has released the November 2024 Visa Bulletin which is the second Visa Bulletin for the new fiscal year. The headline in the month’s Visa Bulletin is the fact that there is no movement at all in [...]
The Department of State has announced the DV-2026 Diversity Visa (a.k.a. “green card”) lottery dates. The dates for electronic entry submission for this year’s lottery are between noon, Eastern Daylight Time (EDT) (GMT-4), Wednesday, October 2, 2024, and noon, Eastern Standard Time (EST) (GMT-5), on Thursday, November 7, 2024 (extended from the previous deadline on [...]
