Beginning May 1, 2019, Israel has been added as an E visa treaty country which makes its nationals eligible to obtain the E-2 treaty investor visa classification. Spouses and unmarried children under 21 years of age of such treaty investor and employees are also eligible for the E-2 classification. About the E-2 Treaty Investor Visa [...]
The U.S. State Department has just released the June 2019 Visa Bulletin which is the ninth Visa Bulletin for the FY2019 fiscal year. The headline in the upcoming month’s Visa Bulletin is significant retrogression in EB-1 India and the extremely slow [...]
A district court judge for the Middle District of North Carolina has issued a nationwide preliminary injunction, effective immediately, enjoining USCIS's memo titled "Accrual of Unlawful Presence and F, J, and M Nonimmigrants," (see our article and analysis on the initial memorandum) originally issued on May 10, 2018, and updated on August 9, 2018, that [...]
Starting May 2019, CBP is introducing some minor changes to the I-94 number format by making them alphanumeric. I-94 numbers are 11 digits long and until now they only contained numbers; however, starting this month, CBP is starting to use alphanumeric I-94 numbers. At this time the length will still be 11 characters [...]
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service (USCIS) has announced that they have completed the intake and processing of all of the fiscal year (FY2020) H-1B cap petitions. According to USCIS, there were over 201,011 H-1B cap petitions filed during the April [...]
The U.S. State Department has just released the May 2019 Visa Bulletin which is the eighth Visa Bulletin for the FY2019 fiscal year. The headline in the upcoming month’s Visa Bulletin [...]
The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service (USCIS) announced that, as of Friday, April 5th, they have received a sufficient number of H-1B petitions to meet the annual H-1B cap for the 2020 fiscal year (FY2020). According to USCIS, they have received more [...]
USCIS has announced that they will allow premium processing for new FY2020 H-1B cap cases to be filed on April 1, 2019; however, this will be done in a two-phased approach. H-1B cap petitions requesting [...]
The U.S. State Department has just released the April 2019 Visa Bulletin which is the seventh Visa Bulletin for the FY2019 fiscal year. The headline in the upcoming month’s Visa Bulletin is the extremely slow forward movement [...]
USCIS has announced that starting March 12, 2019, they will accept requests for premium processing “upgrades” for all H-1B petitions. This includes upgrades for pending H-1B petitions and premium processing requests as part of new petitions. USCIS will announce soon whether they [...]
