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News & EventsIMPORTANT ALERT: USCIS SUSPENDS PREMIUM PROCESSING FOR H-1B
Yesterday, USCIS announced that it will temporarily suspend premium processing for all H-1B visa petitions beginning on April 3, 2017 for as long as six months. Importantly, this suspension will even apply to all FY2018 cap-subject H-1B petitions. This includes NEW...
H-1B Fiscal Year 2018 Cap: What You Need to Know
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...
Immigration News: Trump’s Immigration Ban Halted
Many foreign nationals breathed a temporary sigh of relief when the Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit declined to lift the temporary restraining order placed on President Trump’s entry ban on February 9, 2017. However, the relief is temporary. A federal district...
MARCH 2017 VISA BULLETIN ISSUED
The Department of State (DOS) has issued its March 2017 Visa Bulletin. For the categories that are not current, there continues to be slow advancement for EB-2 and EB-3 categories. Notably, EB-2 India has made an advancement of 1 month and 17 days after a period of...
UPDATE: Important Events Following the Executive Order
On January 30, 2017, following President Donald Trump’s signing of the Executive Order entitled, “Protecting the Nation from Foreign Terrorist Entry into the United States,” the Attorney General of Washington State filed a lawsuit in federal court against the...
UPDATE: NEWS ON PRESIDENT TRUMP’S ENTRY BAN
President Donald J. Trump has signed an executive order that suspends the entry of foreign nationals from Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen to the United States for a period of 90 days, or through April 27, 2017. The order also reportedly suspends a...
NEWS ON PRESIDENT TRUMP’S ENTRY BAN
On Friday January 27th, 2017 President Donald J. Trump signed an executive order that suspends the entry of foreign nationals from the following seven countries; Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen to the United States for a period of 90 days, or...
FEBRUARY 2017 VISA BULLETIN ISSUED
The Department of State (DOS) has issued its February 2017 Visa Bulletin. For the categories that are not current, there continues to be slow advancement for EB-2 and EB-3 categories. Notably, EB-2 India has had no advancement since the January 2017 Visa Bulletin....
USCIS ESTABLISHES NEW CRITERIA FOR NATIONAL INTEREST WAIVERS
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...
USCIS Establishes New Criteria for National Interest Waivers
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...