While few, if any, of our clients and readers spent too much time planning and celebrating, October 1st is an important date as it marks the beginning of the new government fiscal year. The beginning of the new fiscal year turnover has immigration implications for many — for example, H-1B cap petitions are [...]
The Department of State has announced the DV-2021 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, 2019, and noon, Eastern Standard Time (EST) (GMT-5), on Tuesday, November 5 2019. Applicants may access the electronic Diversity [...]
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service ("USCIS") requires any non-English language document submitted as evidence or in support of an application or petition to be accompanied by a certified English translation which has to meet certain specific requirements. Foreign Language Translation Requirements According to the Code of Federal Regulations, 8 CFR 103.2(b)(3), Any document containing foreign [...]
The U.S. State Department has just released the October 2019 Visa Bulletin which is the first Visa Bulletin for the FY2020 fiscal year. The headline in the upcoming month’s Visa Bulletin is that [...]
An unfortunate fact about the current H-1B climate is the historically high request for evidence (“RFE”) and denial rates for H-1B petitions. Government data and research by many organizations (see National Foundation for American Policy (NFAP) [...]
The U.S. State Department has just released the September 2019 Visa Bulletin which is the last Visa Bulletin for the FY2019 fiscal year. The headline in the upcoming month’s Visa Bulletin is the [...]
The U.S. State Department has just released the August 2019 Visa Bulletin which is the eleventh Visa Bulletin for the FY2019 fiscal year. The headline in the upcoming month’s Visa Bulletin is the introduction [...]
The two weeks since the release of the July 2019 Visa Bulletin have created much confusion with in the FB-2A category and especially with respect to which dates would USCIS use in determining who can [...]
With a very few exceptions, an in-person interview with USCIS adjudicator is a required step in the review process for all employment and family I-485 adjustment of status and all N-400 naturalization applications. An interview is required for many [...]
The U.S. State Department has just released the July 2019 Visa Bulletin which is the tenth Visa Bulletin for the FY2019 fiscal year. The headline in the upcoming month’s Visa Bulletin is [...]
