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USCIS Delays Effective Date of International Entrepreneur Rule Seeking Time to Kill the Rule

In a Federal Register announcement dated July 11, 2017, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service (USCIS) has delayed the effective date of the International Entrepreneur rule from July 17, 2017 to March 14, 2018.      Additionally, the notice indicates that this delay will allow USCIS to publish rulemaking seeking to rescind the International Entrepreneur rule altogether, [...]

By |2017-07-13T09:55:37-04:00July 13th, 2017|Entrepreneurs, News, News Alert|

August 2017 Visa Bulletin – EB-2 ROW Cutoff Date Introduced

The U.S. State Department has just released the August 2017 Visa Bulletin which is the eleventh Visa Bulletin for the FY2017 fiscal year.  The headline in the upcoming month’s Visa Bulletin is the introduction of a cutoff date for the [...]

By |2017-07-11T21:17:47-04:00July 11th, 2017|AOS, Articles, EB-2, EB-3, I-485, News, News Alert, Visa Bulletin|

USCIS Starts Mailing H-1B Cap Non-Selection Notices

Two months after completing the random H-1B cap lottery, USCIS has started mailing back the H-1B cap applications which were not selected under the random H-1B cap lottery.     While the H-1B cap receipts for selected cases were sent out by May 3rd,  many employers and applicants who had not heard by now had to assume that their [...]

By |2017-06-19T09:45:45-04:00June 19th, 2017|Articles, H-1B, News, News Alert, PERM|

July 2017 Visa Bulletin – Major EB-3 China Retrogression, EB-3 India Advances Notably

The U.S. State Department has just released the July 2017 Visa Bulletin which is the tenth Visa Bulletin for the FY2017 fiscal year.  The headline in the upcoming month’s Visa Bulletin is the significant 33-month retrogression in EB-3 [...]

By |2017-06-09T21:21:38-04:00June 9th, 2017|Articles, EB-2, EB-3, I-485, News, News Alert, Visa Bulletin|

USCIS Clarifies H-1B Master’s Cap Degree Must be Obtained While University is Accredited

The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service (USCIS) has issued a memorandum adopting the AAO decision in Matter of A-T-, Inc. and establishing policy guidance which will apply to and bind all USCIS adjudicators.    USCIS clarifies that [...]

By |2017-06-01T12:31:01-04:00June 1st, 2017|AAO, Articles, F-1, H-1B, News, News Alert, Policy|

USCIS Issues a Multitude of RFEs on Pending I-485 Applications – Mid-2017 Edition

Many of our clients and readers are already aware of the move by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service (“USCIS”) to issue what are hundreds, or perhaps even thousands, of very similar, if not identical, requests for evidence [...]

By |2017-05-20T21:46:57-04:00May 18th, 2017|Articles, I-485, News, News Alert|

June 2017 Visa Bulletin – EB-1 China and EB-1 India Cutoff Date Introduced

The U.S. State Department has just released the June 2017 Visa Bulletin which is the ninth Visa Bulletin for the FY2017 fiscal year.  The headline in the upcoming month’s Visa Bulletin is introduction of a cutoff date for EB-1 [...]

By |2017-05-20T21:46:57-04:00May 9th, 2017|Articles, EB-1, EB-2, EB-3, I-485, News, News Alert, Visa Bulletin|

USCIS Completes Data Entry and Receipting of H-1B Cap Petitions for FY2018

Many of our readers are aware that as of April 7, 2017, 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 [...]

By |2017-05-20T21:46:57-04:00May 3rd, 2017|Articles, Employers, H-1B, News, News Alert|

President Trump to Keep The NAFTA Treaty and TN Visas (For Now)

One of the top campaign promises of the Trump administration during the election season was to scrap the NAFTA treaty between the U.S, Canada and Mexico.    The NAFTA treaty is the source of TN visas for nationals [...]

By |2017-05-20T21:46:57-04:00April 27th, 2017|Articles, News, News Alert, TN|

Alert: FY2018 H-1B Cap Demand Very Strong; Random Lottery Just Completed

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 (FY2018) H-1B cap petitions.    According to USCIS, there were over 199,000 H-1B cap petitions filed [...]

By |2017-04-17T17:09:24-04:00April 17th, 2017|Articles, Employers, H-1B, News, News Alert, USCIS|

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