by admin | Jan 8, 2021 | Employment Based Immigrant Visa, General News, H-1B, Immigration News, Latest News, Non-Immigrant Visas, Visas
On January 8, 2020, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) published a final rule that replaces the H-1B cap lottery system with a system that allocated H-1B visa numbers according to the Department of Labor’s Occupational Employment Statistics (OES) four...
by admin | Dec 11, 2020 | Employment Based Immigrant Visa, General News, H-1B, Immigration News, Latest News, Non-Immigrant Visas, Visas
Last Tuesday, U.S. District Judge Jeffrey White’s ruling dismissed changes the administration announced in October 2020 to the H-1B visa program, which included salary requirements on firms that employed skilled workers from overseas and placed new limits on...
by admin | Dec 2, 2020 | Employment Based Immigrant Visa, General News, H-1B, Immigration News, Latest News, Non-Immigrant Visas, Visas
A federal judge threw out two rules by the Trump administration that limited the number of visas that are made available to skilled foreign workers. The Tuesday ruling from U.S. District Judge Jeffrey White, dismisses changes the administration announced in October...
by admin | Oct 30, 2020 | General News, H-1B, Immigration News, Latest News, Non-Immigrant Visas, Visas
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is proposing a rule to the Federal Register to amend regulations that govern the process by which the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) selects H-1B cap-subject petitions. If this rule is finalized,...
by admin | Oct 8, 2020 | General News, H-1B, Immigration News, Latest News, Non-Immigrant Visas, Visas
The Department of Labor (DOL) and Department of Homeland Security (DHS) have published two new interim rules, changing wage requirements for employment-based visas as well as regulatory criteria for adjudicating H-1B petitions. The first (wage requirements) will be...
by admin | Oct 2, 2020 | General News, Immigrant Visas, Immigration News, Latest News, Visas
The U.S. Department of State (DOS) will begin accepting online registrations for the Fiscal Year (FY) 2022 Diversity Visa lottery beginning on Wednesday, October 7, 2020 at noon Eastern and ending on Tuesday, November 10, 2020 at noon Eastern. The Diversity Visa...
by admin | Oct 2, 2020 | Employment Based Immigrant Visa, General News, Immigrant Visas, Immigration News, Latest News, Non-Immigrant Visas, Visas
On September 30, 2020 the President signed H.R. 8337, the Continuing Appropriations Act 2021 and Other Extensions Act, part of which seeks to address USCIS’s budget shortfall. Part of the act addresses Premium Processing fees. Note that while the law takes effect...
by admin | Sep 25, 2020 | Employment Based Immigrant Visa, General News, Immigrant Visas, Immigration News, Latest News, Visas
As a result of COVID-19 and the closings of U.S. embassies and USCIS for long periods of time, the USCIS and DOS approved far fewer permanent residence applications (“Green Cards”) in FY2020. As a result, the start of the new fiscal year, FY2021, has heralded a unique...
by admin | Sep 21, 2020 | Employment Based Immigrant Visa, General News, H-1B, Immigrant Visas, Immigration News, Latest News, Non-Immigrant Visas, Visas
On Friday, September 18, 2020, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit ruled that a lower court did not have the authority to enjoin the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) from enforcing its public charge rule during the COVID-19 pandemic. This ruling is...
by admin | Sep 21, 2020 | Employment Based Immigrant Visa, General News, H-1B, Immigration News, Latest News, Non-Immigrant Visas, Visas
The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) is reviewing a Department of Labor (DOL) rule that is seeking to make a restructuring to the wage level system to establish prevailing wage minimums in the H-1B, H-1B1, and E-3 and PERM programs. The regulation is expected to...
