The Department of State recently announced a significant update regarding immigrant visa processing. Effective January 21, 2026, the government has paused all immigrant visa issuances for nationals of over 70 countries deemed at [...]
In the modern corporate landscape, mergers, acquisitions, and reorganizations are routine. However, when a company undergoes restructuring, the immigration status of its sponsored foreign workers can be put at risk. To prevent corporate changes from invalidating an employee’s approved PERM [...]
The U.S. State Department has released the March 2026 Visa Bulletin which is the sixth Visa Bulletin for the new fiscal year. The headline in this month’s Visa Bulletin is the significant forward movement across several employment-based categories compared [...]
With the FY 2027 H-1B cap registration window opening on March 4, 2026, employers and candidates are navigating a landscape defined by the new Wage-Weighted Selection Process and the Beneficiary-Centric model (see our full alert). Reliance on “common knowledge” from previous years is [...]
As vacation seasons approach and especially in recent weeks, our office frequently fields inquiries from foreign nationals currently in the U.S. on nonimmigrant status (such as H-1B, L-1, F-1, or O-1) regarding travel to Puerto Rico. We [...]
The Department of Homeland Security has announced an inflation-based increase of the I-907 premium processing filing fee starting March 1, 2026. The most common $2,805 premium processing filing fee goes up to $2,965 with an average increase of approximately [...]
The U.S. Department of State (“DOS”) announced on January 14, 2026, that it is indefinitely suspending immigrant visa processing for nationals of 75 countries. This new directive, which becomes effective on January 21, 2026, marks a significant [...]
The U.S. State Department has released the February 2026 Visa Bulletin which is the fifth Visa Bulletin for the new fiscal year. The headline in this month’s Visa Bulletin is the modest movement compared to January 2026. The most significant [...]
The new H-1B work visa “cap” season is set to begin on March 4 with significant changes to how USCIS will allocate the available visa numbers. Under the new final rule, the H-1B [...]
With the approaching H-1B cap filing season, one of the most common concerns we are hearing from both prospective H-1B employers and candidates is about the H-1B cap lottery and the fact that the random lottery does not provide a great chance of an H-1B application being selected for review. Selection Rate for the Prior [...]
