In an order dated May 16, 2016, the U.S District Court for the Western District of Washington has dismissed the lawsuit challenging the October 2015 Visa Bulletin revisions, or the so-called “visagate.” According to the court, the visa bulletin, mainly because it had not [...]
The Department of Homeland Security has just released a proposed rule seeking to amend (increase) most of the Citizenship and Immigration (USCIS) application filing fees. The weighted average of the increase is 21 percent and USCIS is adding one new fee. The [...]
When permanent residence status is based on marriage to a U.S. citizen, some foreign nationals receive a conditional permanent resident status valid for only two years. The permanent residence status is conditional if it is based on a marriage that was less than 2 years old on the day permanent residence was granted. To receive [...]
The U.S. State Department has just released the June 2016 Visa Bulletin which is the ninth Visa Bulletin for the FY2016 fiscal year. The major headline in the upcoming month’s Visa Bulletin is the significant retrogression in [...]
Many of our readers are aware that as of April 7, 2016, 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 cap cases which are being selected for processing, we wanted to provide an update as to how [...]
Many of our readers are aware of the University of Northern New Jersey story from early April 2016 where federal agents arrested and charged a number of individuals described as brokers, recruiters and employers with conspiracy [...]
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 (FY2017) H-1B cap petitions. According to USCIS, there were over 236,000 H-1B cap petitions filed during the April 1st-7th filing period. This indicates that the number of H-1B cap filings this [...]
The U.S. State Department has just released the May 2016 Visa Bulletin which is the eighth Visa Bulletin for the FY2016 fiscal year. The major headline in the upcoming month’s Visa [...]
The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service (USCIS) announced that, as of today, April 7th, they have received a sufficient number of H-1B petitions to meet the annual H-1B cap for the 2017 fiscal year (FY2017). According to USCIS, they have received more than 20,000 H-1B petitions filed for beneficiaries with U.S. master’s degree and more [...]
The U.S. State Department has just released the April 2016 Visa Bulletin which is the seventh Visa Bulletin for the FY2016 fiscal year. The major headline in the upcoming month’s Visa Bulletin is lack of major [...]
