Visa Information

The online registration period for the DV-2022 Program has begun on Wednesday, October 7, 2020, and concludes on Tuesday, November 10, 2020 at 12:00 noon, Eastern Standard Time (EST) (GMT-5). [...]

Minimum Investments, Targeted Employment Area Designations Among Reforms WASHINGTON—U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) will publish a final rule on July 24 that makes a [...]

The final rule on #H1B cap subject petitions introduces an electronic registration requirement for petitioners—suspended for this year’s H-1B cap season—and reverses the order in which #USCIS [...]

The State Department issued a news release that the 2019 DV Lottery Program will begin again on October 18, 2018. All earlier entries have been deleted and all applicants will have to submit new [...]

For foreigner’s applying for temporary employment authorization in the United States, obtaining a social security number was previously a separate step, requiring a separate application to [...]

In the aftermath of hurricane Irma, US Citizenship and Immigration Services just released the following public service advisory. While we share this advisory to inform potentially affected [...]

USCIS has released a new form I-9 with a revision date of July 17, 2017. Employers should now use this new form but can continue using the previous version of the form (revision date 11/14/2016 [...]

US employers, please see a recent alert from the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA): AILA has recently received reports that employers have received emails from a contractor at the [...]

Following its announcement on April 19, 2017 USCIS started printing newly designed Green Cards and Employment Authorization Documents [EAD] on May 1, 2017. The new front and back of the Green [...]

Today U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services has announced that it has reached the congressionally mandated 65,000 visa H-1B cap for fiscal year 2018. USCIS has also received a sufficient [...]