by admin | May 12, 2014 | Employment Based Immigrant Visa, Family Based Immigrant Visa, General News, Immigrant Visas
The U.S. Department of State has released the Visa Bulletin for June 2014, and unfortunately, for some categories the priority dates have retrogressed. The Priority Date cut-off for Employment-Based Third Preference workers (except India and Philippines) is currently...
by admin | May 12, 2014 | General News, L-1, Non-Immigrant Visas
Currently, when an L-1 Blanket Visa is approved by the U.S. Consulate, a five (5) year visa stamp is issued. However, while the visa stamp (in the passport) is valid for a five-year period, the visa petition (I-129S) must be revalidated after three (3) years in order...
by admin | May 2, 2014 | General News, H-1B, Non-Immigrant Visas
As predicted, more than half of the H-1B petitions filed during the first week of April 2014 will be returned without ever being reviewed by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS). On April 7, 2014, USCIS announced that the fiscal year (FY) 2015 H-1B cap...
by admin | Apr 8, 2014 | General News, H-1B, Non-Immigrant Visas
Please be advised that there are travel restrictions while your H-1B petition is pending (and until approval period start date of Oct. 1, 2014). This is because immigration law is overseen by multiple government agencies with overlapping jurisdictions. Therefore,...
by admin | Mar 13, 2014 | Immigration News, L-1, Non-Immigrant Visas, SWLGPC New York, SWLGPC Silicon Valley, SWLGPC Team
Today, our office received information from the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA) which reported that (pursuant to a Freedom of Information Request) on February 26, 2014, the USCIS released statistics regarding the number of L-1B nonimmigrant petitions...
