For employers planning to sponsor candidates in this year’s H-1B visa lottery, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has announced it is retaining the same electronic registration process for the H-1B visa cap...more
Just how much impact is the global pandemic having on foreign national workers and business immigration? Matt Hoyt addresses this question and gives us a breakdown of which foreign national workers are most at risk and how...more
9/1/2020
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H-1B ,
H2-B Visas ,
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Travel Ban ,
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On June 22, President Trump took aggressive action impacting a wide group of temporary foreign national workers. In Presidential Proclamation 10052, President Trump suspended the entry of certain temporary workers who are...more
On Dec. 6, 2019, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced that it will implement a new preregistration process for the H-1B visa cap lottery in 2020....more
After some earlier versions that encountered significant resistance and judicial challenge, President Donald Trump issued a Proclamation on Sept. 24 that restricts travel to the United States by nationals of eight countries –...more
10/18/2017
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Corporate Counsel ,
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The United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has published its long-awaited “High-Skilled Nonimmigrant Workers” regulation today, Nov. 18, 2016. This regulation was proposed on Dec. 31, 2015. It will become...more
Lottery mania has been sweeping the nation as Powerball winnings exceeded $1 billion for the first time. For highly skilled foreign nationals and the employers who desire to employ them, a different kind of lottery mania is...more