Visas and Immigration

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). [...]

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. [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]