USCIS has announced that effective September 11, 2018, they are temporarily suspending premium processing for most H-1B petitions until February 19, 2019. All H-1B new employment, transfers and amendments filed with the California or Vermont Service Centers are affected. Only H-1B [...]
What is the status of the H-4 EAD rescission rule? This is a very common question we have been hearing over the past months and, unfortunately, while the government still appears intent on rescinding the H-4 EAD work permit, [...]
USCIS has provided much needed clarification with respect to the ability of F-1 STEM OPT holders to be placed at and provide work at a location other than their employer’s office. Under the new guidance, USCIS is specifically [...]
Our office has obtained an updated set of expected cutoff date movements over the next several months as we end fiscal year 2018 on September 30, 2018 and enter the fiscal year 2019. [...]
The U.S. State Department has just released the September 2018 Visa Bulletin which is the last Visa Bulletin for the FY2018 fiscal year. The headline in the upcoming month’s Visa Bulletin is the cutoff [...]
The U.S. State Department has just released the August 2018 Visa Bulletin which is the eleventh Visa Bulletin for the FY2018 fiscal year. The headline in the upcoming month’s Visa Bulletin is [...]
The U.S. State Department has just released the July 2018 Visa Bulletin which is the tenth Visa Bulletin for the FY2018 fiscal year. The headline in the upcoming month’s Visa Bulletin is the significant retrogression in EB-3 China [...]
Update (May 3, 2019): The Policy Memorandum has been blocked by a preliminary injunction. In a Policy Memorandum dated May 10, 2018 and effective as of August 9, 2018, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service (USCIS) is changing the way it treats non-immigrants who are in the U.S. on F, J and M status and, specifically, [...]
Many of our readers are aware that as of April 6, 2018, USCIS had received a sufficient number of H-1B cap-subject petitions to fill the annual H-1B quota (total of 190,000 cap applications). As USCIS has been issuing receipt notices for the H-1B cap cases which are being selected for processing, we wanted to provide [...]
The U.S. State Department has just released the June 2018 Visa Bulletin which is the ninth Visa Bulletin for the FY2018 fiscal year. The headline in the upcoming month’s Visa Bulletin is the lack of [...]
