New Rulemaking Brings Significant Changes to EB-5 Program
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 [...]
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 [...]
Revised Form I-765 with Option to Apply for SSN
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 [...]
Department of State Emails from [email protected] are Legitimate
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 [...]
USCIS has released Redesigned Green Cards and Employment Authorization Documents
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 [...]
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 [...]
President Trump’s Executive Action – A Recommendation to All Employers to Audit their I-9 forms
As the President issued a number of Executive Orders, one of the Executive Orders entitled “Enhancing Public Safety in the Interior of the United States” dated January 25, 2017 states [...]
Visa Fees Increased on December 23, 2016
Right in time for the holidays, immigration fees increased by a weighted average of 21% Examples include: Form New fee I-90 – application to replace permanent resident card $455 I-129 Petition [...]
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 [...]
USCIS Reaches FY 2016 H-1B Cap
This just posted by USCIS: Release Date: April 07, 2015 WASHINGTON – U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has reached the congressionally mandated H-1B cap for fiscal year (FY) 2016. [...]
