The Road Ahead: Processing U.S. Visas Amidst A Global Pandemic
Background In April 2020, the White House implemented Presidential Proclamation 10014 (P.P. 10014). It sought to halt the entrance of...
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- Dec 17, 2020
- 2 min
Court Protects H-1B Workers, A Victory For Economic Development
Since the beginning of the month, at least three federal courts have handed down adverse rulings in connection with Administration...
- Dec 16, 2020
- 2 min
Tough Climb Ahead as Biden Seeks to Negate 4 Years of Harsh Immigration Policies
The Migration Policy Institute, a think tank that is generally supportive of liberal immigration policies, has identified at least 400...
- Dec 10, 2020
- 2 min
S.386 Poised To Become Law, Indian Nationals Stand To Benefit
BACKGROUND On December 2, 2020 the Senate passed The Fairness for High-Skilled Immigrants Act or S.386. For many years, persons applying...
- Dec 2, 2020
- 2 min
Court Saves OPT, International Students Cheer
On Monday November 29, 2020, D.C. U.S. District Court Judge Reggie Walton ruled against The Washington Alliance of Technology Workers who...
- Nov 23, 2020
- 2 min
Trump to Issue Executive Order Ending Birthright Citizenship
Despite an arguably flawed interpretation of the 14th Amendment that the U.S. Supreme Court has previously found to guarantee U.S....
- Nov 19, 2020
- 1 min
Reduced Unemployment May Help H-1B Plaintiffs
As unemployment rebounds, the Administration loses its justification for denying H-1B status to persons who are otherwise eligible to...
- Nov 4, 2020
- 1 min
Public Charge Rule Lives... Again... For Now
Earlier today, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit entered an administrative stay of the lower district court's ruling. The...
- Nov 2, 2020
- 2 min
U.S. Federal Court Strikes Down Public Charge Rule Yet Again
BREAKING: A federal district court has just granted summary judgment vacating the Trump Administration's enhanced "Public Charge Rule" in...
- Oct 22, 2020
- 3 min
USCIS's Big Ban on Blanks!
It is unsurprising that this Administration, which brought us policies like "Zero Tolerance Family Separation" and "No Dark Courtrooms",...
- Oct 20, 2020
- 2 min
U.S. State Department Proposing to Eliminate "B-1 in Lieu of H" Visas.
The U.S. State Department has announced plans to summarily terminate "B-1 in lieu of H" visas. Immigration lawyers have been regularly...
- Oct 12, 2020
- 2 min
Get USCIS to Waive the Interview for Your U.S. Permanent Residence
Year after year, countless foreign nationals obtain U.S. permanent residence by marrying U.S. citizens and filing to Adjust Status....
- Oct 8, 2020
- 2 min
Au Pair Program Crippled with Immediate Moratorium
The U.S. Department of State ("DOS") is immediately imposing a moratorium on growth in the J-1 Au Pair Program. This program permits...
- Oct 7, 2020
- 1 min
Administration Raises the Bar on H-1B Eligibility
The Administration is publishing rules that will change the computation of prevailing wage levels, the effect of which will make it more...
- Oct 7, 2020
- 1 min
Annual "Green Card" Lottery (DV-2022) Opens on October 7, 2020!
The annual Diversity Visa Program a/k/a "the Green Card Lottery" will be open for registration from Wednesday October 7, 2020 (12:00 p.m....
- Oct 1, 2020
- 2 min
More Premium Processing: Robbing Peter to Pay Paul?
While the expansion of premium processing will be hailed by many foreign nationals as a godsend, we should all be cautiously optimistic...
- Sep 28, 2020
- 1 min
Major Fee Hike to Affect Immigration Applications Postmarked After October 1, 2020.
Due to the hefty increase in U.S. immigration fees that goes into effect at the end of this week, foreign nationals are assiduously...
- Sep 24, 2020
- 1 min
DHS Plans on Completely Eliminating Flexible "Duration of Status" Admissions
Traditionally, certain nonimmigrant foreign nationals, such as students, exchange visitors, and foreign media personnel (F, J, and I...
- Sep 22, 2020
- 1 min
USCIS Retroactively Imposes Public Charge Requirement, Requests Burdensome I-944 Forms
Earlier today, USCIS announced, effective immediately, it would be imposing the enhanced public charge rule on applications for U.S....
- Sep 21, 2020
- 1 min
U.S. Federal Judge Denies USCIS's Request to Dismiss H-1B Class-Action Lawsuit.
Last week, a federal judge in California, Judge Susan van Keulen, denied a request by U.S. Citizenship & Immigration Services (USCIS) to...
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