2019 DV Lottery Program to Restart October 18, 2017 !

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 applications again: See announcement here: https://www.dvlottery.state.gov/ (as of October 16, 2017): Due to a technical issue, the DV-2019 entry period that […]

H-1B visa cap reached for FY 2018

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 number of H-1B petitions to meet the 20,000 visa U.S. advanced degree exemption, also known as the master’s cap. The agency will reject and return filing […]

2018 Diversity Visa Lottery Runs Until November 7, 2016

Online registration for the DV-2018 Program began on Tuesday, October 4, 2016 at 12:00 noon, Eastern Daylight Time (EDT) (GMT-4), and concludes on Monday, November 7, 2016 at 12:00 noon, Eastern Standard Time (EST) (GMT-4); please find current instructions here: https://travel.state.gov/content/visas/en/immigrate/diversity-visa/instructions.html This link takes you to the only official webpage by the U.S. Department of […]

Anerkennung deutscher Geldurteile in den USA

Nachdem in vergangener Zeit insbesondere Florida als Schuldnerparadies missbraucht worden ist draengen sich vermehrt bei deutschen Glaeubigern die Frage nach der Durchsetzbarkeit auslaendischer Titel in den USA auf. Die Anerkennung deutscher Geldurteile erfolgt in den USA nach einzelstaatlichem Recht, wobei in einer Vielzahl der Staaten eine einheitliche Rahmengesetzgebung (der sog. Foreign Money Judgment Recognition Act) […]