Congress Reaches Bipartisan Deal on 2016 Omnibus Bill
On Tuesday, December 15, 2015, Congressional leaders reached an agreement on a year-end spending and tax deal that would prevent a government shutdown…
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On Tuesday, December 15, 2015, Congressional leaders reached an agreement on a year-end spending and tax deal that would prevent a government shutdown…
On December 14, 2015, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) Civil Rights Division…
On November 24, 2015, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) published a notice in the Federal Register to inform the…
The American Immigration Lawyers Association has sent out an alert that O and P petitions are currently taking approximately eight…
On November 9, 2015, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit upheld an injunction permanently barring the…
The permanent labor certification process (also referred to as PERM) allows an employer to hire a foreign national to work…
Foreign national students in F-1 status are generally allowed to apply for and obtain a one-year work permit, referred to…
The permanent labor certification process (also referred to as PERM) allows an employer to hire a foreign national to work…
The U.S. Department of State has announced the opening of the registration period for the DV-2017 Diversity Visa (DV) Lottery…
Starting today, September 24, 2015, USCIS will suspend final adjudication of employment-based adjustment of status applications filed on Form I-485,…
The EB-1A permanent residence category is reserved only for individuals with extraordinary ability in the sciences, arts, education, business, or…
The permanent labor certification process (also referred to as PERM) allows an employer to hire a foreign national to work…
On September 9, 2015, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced a major overhaul of its system for determining adjustment…
The U.S. Citizenship & Immigration Service (USCIS) just made it easier for immigrants to pay the USCIS Immigrant Fee online…
USCIS has confirmed that their card production facility in Corbin, KY is undergoing maintenance, and all card production work has…
Employers rarely question the general rule that independent contractors are not required to complete a form I-9. Most employers believe that,…
On August 17, 2015, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) issued a final Policy Memorandum on L-1B visa adjudications (L-1B…
Whether you are an employer or an individual – when it comes to your immigration goals it pays to look…
The U.S. Department of State has published the monthly “Visa Bulletin” for September 2015. The Visa Bulletin is a government…
During a three-day national conference in Tulsa, Bea LeVine, CP, FRP was presented with the Affiliate Award by the National Association of…
As previously reported, on May 22, 2015, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) posted draft guidance on when to file…
On July 8, 2015, the Office of the Chief Administrative Hearing Officer (OCAHO), the administrative court with jurisdiction to review…
The permanent labor certification process (PERM) allows employers to hire foreign nationals to work permanently in the United States. Prior to…
On July 14, 2015, the U.S. Department of Justice, U.S. Attorney’s Office, announced that a corporation domiciled in Pennsylvania pled…
On July 13, 2015, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) resumed accepting Form I-907, Request for Premium Processing Service for…
The U.S. Department of State (DOS) announced changes to the application process to obtain E-1 and E-2 visas, due to…
On June 23, 2015, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) charged two companies with unregistered broker activity related to EB-5…
The U.S. Department of State (DOS) has reported that it is experiencing technical problems with its visa systems, preventing it…
As previously reported, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) reached the congressionally mandated H-1B cap, including the 65,000 general-category cap…
The permanent labor certification process (also referred to as PERM) allows an employer to hire a foreign national to work…
As previously reported, a lawsuit filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, by Save Jobs USA,…
As previously reported, on April 9, 2015, the Administrative Appeals Office (AAO), which is responsible for the review of certain…
As previously reported, beginning on May 26, 2015, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) will begin the implementation of…
The permanent labor certification process (also referred to as PERM) allows an employer to hire a foreign national to work permanently…
The Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) contains provisions that render individuals who are not yet U.S. Citizens inadmissible or removable…
On April 22, 2015, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) held an EB-5 Stakeholder Engagement to discuss various issues relating…
The Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) contains provisions that render individuals who are not yet U.S. Citizens inadmissible, or removable…
The H-2B program allows U.S. employers or U.S. agents who meet specific regulatory requirements to bring foreign nationals to the…
All workers employed in the United States must be able to present proper documents evidencing their identity and work authorization…
On April 9, 2015, Congressman David Jolly introduced a bill in the House of Representatives titled “E-2 Visa Improvement Act…
On April 6, 2015, the Acting Principal Legal Advisor for the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Office of the…
As previously reported, on April 7, 2015, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced that it had reached the congressionally…
On April 9, 2015, the Administrative Appeals Office (AAO), which is responsible for the review of certain decisions rendered by…
On April 7, 2015, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced that it has reached the congressionally mandated H-1B cap…
The L-1 (“intracompany transferee”) nonimmigrant visa classification permits multinational companies to transfer certain categories of employees from their foreign operations…
When processing immigrant visa cases subject to the Affidavit of Support Form I-864 requirement, consular posts must use the numbers…
As previously reported, on March 5, 2015 U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) suspended processing of H-2B petitions for non-immigrant…
As previously-reported, on March 4, 2015, the federal district court in the Northern District of Florida vacated the Department of…
The Department of Justice’s Office of Special Counsel for Immigration-Related Unfair Employment Practices (OSC), in the Civil Rights Division, is…
As of March 5, 2015, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) is temporarily suspending adjudication of H-2B petitions for temporary…
This is the last article in our series relating to overcoming H-1B petition challenges, which we authored in anticipation of…
The L-1 visa is for employees of multinational corporations who wish to come to the U.S. to work for a…
As previously reported, certain job positions present a particular challenge when requesting H-1B specialty occupation status from U.S. Citizenship and…
On February 24, 2015, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) Director León Rodríguez announced that, effective May 26, 2015, the…
The most common H work visa is the H-1B which is for “specialty occupations.” One of the requirements for H-1B…
On February 17, 2015, Secretary Jeh C. Johnson announced that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) will not accept requests…
The most common H work visa is the H-1B which is for “specialty occupations.” One of the requirements for H-1B petitions…
On February 2, 2015, the Justice Department announced the launch of an educational video reminding employers that Salvadorans with Temporary…
NOTE: This article does not contain the most current information. The government is NOT accepting applications for DAPA or expanded…
The most common H work visa is the H-1B which is for “specialty occupations.” Specialty occupation means an occupation which…
The interplay between I-9 compliance and anti-discrimination regulations presents a major dilemma for employers. Generally, employers are required to accept facially-valid…
As regularly reported in the news, the crackdown on employers by the federal government continues. If your company is targeted…
A couple of recent decisions by the Office of the Chief Administrative Hearings Officer (OCAHO) demonstrate the importance of timely…
An Iranian American immigration judge has sued the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) after it issued an official order forcing…
An important goal of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) is to protect U.S. workers from being displaced in the…
The most common H work visa is the H-1B which is for “specialty occupations.” A specialty occupation is one that…
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) recently published a general notice announcing that it will be expanding the Global Entry…
Before the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) may approve certain employment-based immigrant petitions, U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) must…
In April 2010, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) launched its Request for Evidence (RFE) Project, an initiative to review…
A growing trend in I-9 compliance is the use of electronic software to manage I-9 and E-Verify compliance responsibilities. This shift…