USCIS has just released a new new temporary final rule (link to rule) effective as of April 8, 2024 pursuant to which the EAD auto-extension period is increased (again) from up to 180 days to up to 540 [...]
USCIS has announced that they have received and selected sufficient number of H-1B “cap” registrations for the available 85,000 H-1B work visas. As a result, the H-1B cap registration selection period has been completed and all selected registrants (via [...]
The U.S. State Department has released the April 2024 Visa Bulletin which is the seventh Visa Bulletin for the new fiscal year. The headline in the upcoming month’s Visa Bulletin is positive forward movement: notable forward movement in [...]
Many of our clients and readers are aware that the Department of Homeland Security is significantly increasing the USCIS filing fees starting April 1, 2024. We published a detailed alert for all of the fees (see details); however, for [...]
In a new final rule USCIS is changing the process it selects H-1B cap registrants during the annual “cap” lottery selection process. Starting with this year, the new process will be based on “beneficiary-centric” selection which means that [...]
The Department of Homeland Security has just released the final rule that significantly changes the USCIS fee schedule, including adding new fees, establishing multiple fees for nonimmigrant worker petitions and increasing the premium processing time limit. The rule and the new fees [...]
As the H-1B cap filing season is well underway and as the first filing day of March 1st is approaching fast, a common question by H-1B employers or H-1B candidates is whether an H-1B cap petition can (or should) be filed when the foreign national employee is still completing their degree program. This is very [...]
One of the happiest moments for an I-485 Adjustment of Status applicant is the day their employment-based I-485 is approved and their green card is ordered for production in mailing. However, [...]
The Department of Homeland Security has announced an inflation-based increase of the I-907 premium processing filing fee starting February 26, 2024. The most common $2,500 premium processing filing fee goes up to $2,805 with an average increase of [...]
Earlier this afternoon the Department of State (DOS) shared the Federal Register notice with details of the highly-anticipated stateside visa renewal pilot program which will begin on January 29, 2024 and will end on April 1, 2024. We [...]
