by admin | Feb 27, 2017 | Employment Based Immigrant Visa, H-1B, Immigrant Visas, Non-Immigrant Visas
The number of petitions that may be filed for this year’s H-1B 2018 Cap season is anticipated to surpass last year’s 236,000 applications. With the large pool of applicants, it is important to know how to keep yourself ahead of the game—or at least give yourself a...
by admin | Jan 10, 2017 | Employment Based Immigrant Visa, General News
In Matter of Dhanasar, 26 I&N Dec. 884 (AAO 2016), USCIS announced a new analytical framework for adjudicating National Interest Waivers (“NIW”), explicitly overturning the controlling framework laid out in Matter of New York State Dep’t of Transp., 22 I&N...
by admin | Jan 3, 2017 | Employment Based Immigrant Visa
DEPARTMENT OF STATE JANUARY 2017 VISA BULLETIN FOR EMPLOYMENT-BASED CATEGORIES EB-1 REMAINS CURRENT WORLDWIDE EB-2 WORLDWIDE REMAINS CURRENT EB-2 Slow ADVANCEMENT FOR INDIA AND CHINA EB-3 ONE MONTH ADVANCEMENT WORLDWIDE EB-3 SLOW ADVANCEMENT FOR CHINA AND THE...
by admin | Aug 29, 2016 | Employment Based Immigrant Visa, General News, Immigration News
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) is proposing a new rule, which would allow certain international entrepreneurs temporary stay in the U.S. so that they may start or scale their businesses here. Under this proposed rule, DHS may parole, on a...
by admin | Aug 11, 2016 | Employment Based Immigrant Visa
The Department of State (DOS) has issued its final September 2016 Visa Bulletin for Fiscal Year 2016. Fiscal Year 2017 begins with the October 2017 Visa Bulletin where some categories will return to their “current status.” For the September 2016 Visa Bulletin, as...
by admin | Feb 14, 2016 | Employment Based Immigrant Visa, Family Based Immigrant Visa, General News, Immigrant Visas
The United States Department of State has recently published Visa Bulletin for March 2016 which include availability of family-based and employment-based immigrant numbers for “Application Final Action Dates” and “Dates for Filing Applications.” In the Final Action...