Visas and Immigration

Under current law, German citizens interested in applying for US citizenship often required a special permission to retain German citizenship (so-called Beibehaltungsgenehmigung). Effective June [...]

The DV lottery is currently open and you can find instructions and participate here: Electronic Diversity Visa Program (state.gov)  

The German government has published and approved a draft bill that would modernize German nationality law. If this draft bill should become law, German expats in the US would no longer need to [...]

Today, USCIS alerted US employers that they should continue using the soon expiring Form I-9 currently available on I-9 Central, even after the expiration date of August 31, 2019 has passed. [...]

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 [...]

Another recent example of why US employers must be serious about verifying the employment authorization of their employees as mandated by INA §274A. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit [...]

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 [...]