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DV-2025 Diversity Visa (Green Card) Lottery Opens October 4, 2023

The Department of State has announced the DV-2025 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 4, 2023, and noon, Eastern Standard Time (EST) (GMT-5), on Tuesday, November 7, 2023. Applicants may access the electronic Diversity [...]

By |2023-10-05T09:55:00-04:00October 4th, 2023|Articles, News, News Alert|

PERM Labor Certification Overview and Processing Times

Our office handles many ETA Form 9089 Permanent Labor Certification (“PERM”) applications and one of the most common questions is what is an overview of the entire PERM process and how long it would take.   Below we are [...]

By |2024-10-21T08:41:55-04:00September 26th, 2023|Articles, DOL, News, News Alert, PERM|

USCIS Removes Biometrics Requirement (and Fee) for All I-539 Applications

Starting October 1, 2023 USCIS is removing the biometrics requirement (and fee) for all I-539 applications seeking to change of extend status.    As a reminder, the biometrics requirement and fee were created in 2019 and in 2021 USCIS removed [...]

By |2023-09-27T06:59:15-04:00September 26th, 2023|Articles, Fees, News, News Alert|

What Is Unlawful Presence, When Does it Start, and What are Its Consequences?

Unlawful presence is defined in Section 212(a)(9)(B)(ii) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) to mean that an alien is deemed to be unlawfully present in the U.S. if the alien is (1) present after the expiration [...]

By |2023-09-24T15:52:51-04:00September 24th, 2023|Articles, News, News Alert, Travel|

October 2023 Government Shutdown and Immigration: (How) Will It Affect Me?

Many of our clients and readers have been anxiously awaiting news from Washington, DC regarding the funding of the federal government and the threat of shutdown and how it would impact immigration processing.    We are providing an overview [...]

By |2023-10-01T21:02:22-04:00September 21st, 2023|Articles, Government Shutdown, News, News Alert, Policy, USCIS|

October 2023 Visa Bulletin – First Visa Bulletin for Fiscal Year Brings Limited Cutoff Date Recovery; Grim News for EB India

The U.S. State Department has released the October 2023 Visa Bulletin which is the first Visa Bulletin for the new fiscal year.  The headline in the upcoming month’s Visa [...]

By |2023-09-21T12:12:27-04:00September 15th, 2023|Articles, News, News Alert, Visa Bulletin|

Do I Have to File H-1B Amendment When Changing (Remote) Worksite Locations?

With the recent increase of remote or hybrid work arrangements, and the return to office to third-party client sites, we would like to provide a reminder of the relevant H-1B rules for compliance when changing (or having already [...]

By |2024-04-25T12:14:35-04:00September 6th, 2023|Articles, Employers, H-1B, News, News Alert|

How to Handle H-1B Revocations Due to Multiple H-1B Cap Registrations

Many of our readers are aware of the extraordinary demand for first-time H-1B "cap" registrations over the past few years and especially after USCIS introduced a pre-registration system during the 2021 fiscal year.      Under the previous H-1B "cap" filing system, a petition would have to prepare and submit a full H-1B petition (with [...]

By |2024-10-17T07:48:29-04:00August 25th, 2023|Articles, H-1B, News, News Alert|

Second H-1B Cap Lottery Completed; Newly Selected Petitions Must Be Filed by October 31st

USCIS has just completed the second round of the H-1B cap selection lottery and notified the selected applicants. The August 2023 selection round was due to the fact that a (significant) number of H-1B cap registrations [...]

By |2023-08-22T11:20:08-04:00August 22nd, 2023|Articles, H-1B, News, News Alert|

September 2023 Visa Bulletin – Last Visa Bulletin for the Fiscal Year; Not Much Movement

The U.S. State Department has released the September 2023 Visa Bulletin which is the twelfth and final Visa Bulletin for the fiscal year.  The headline in the upcoming month’s Visa Bulletin is the fact that [...]

By |2023-08-24T11:12:32-04:00August 10th, 2023|Articles, News, News Alert, Visa Bulletin|

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