Join Ulmer for a live webinar on January 14 at 2 p.m. (ET) as Partner David W. Leopold discusses what corporate counsel must know about navigating increasingly complicated policies aimed at business immigration....more
1/3/2020
/ Business Immigration ,
Business Strategies ,
Continuing Legal Education ,
Corporate Counsel ,
Employee Retention ,
Employer Liability Issues ,
Executive Orders ,
Foreign Workers ,
Form I-9 ,
Hiring & Firing ,
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) ,
Non-Immigrant Visas ,
Policies and Procedures ,
Recruitment Policies ,
Requests for Evidence ,
Risk Management ,
USCIS ,
Visa Applications ,
Visa Denials ,
Visas ,
Webinars ,
Work Visas ,
Workplace Investigations
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has announced that it will use its new online registration system in next year’s filing season for H-1B specialty occupation visas, which will allow employers to wait until...more
12/10/2019
/ Electronic Filing ,
Filing Requirements ,
Foreign Nationals ,
Foreign Workers ,
H-1B ,
Highly-Skilled Workers Visa ,
Immigrants ,
Immigration Procedures ,
Registration Requirement ,
USCIS ,
Visas
A federal judge in New York has ruled that Canadian physicians who are subject to the J-1 two-year foreign residency requirement may enter the United States in H-1B status, even though they have not spent two years in Canada...more
4/1/2019
/ Abuse of Discretion ,
Arbitrary and Capricious ,
Canada ,
Customs and Border Protection ,
Foreign Workers ,
H-1B ,
Health Care Providers ,
Hospitals ,
J-1 Visas ,
Physicians ,
Residency Requirements ,
USCIS ,
Visas ,
Waivers
Yesterday, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced the start of the fiscal year (FY) 2020 cap season, the start dates for premium processing of cap-subject H-1B petitions, and the launch of USCIS’s new...more
3/20/2019
/ Amended Regulation ,
Department of Homeland Security (DHS) ,
Final Rules ,
Foreign Nationals ,
Foreign Students ,
Foreign Workers ,
H-1B ,
Highly-Skilled Workers Visa ,
Hiring & Firing ,
Immigrants ,
Lottery ,
USCIS ,
Visa Caps ,
Visas
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has announced that effective today it will resume premium processing for all H-1B petitions. Under the USCIS premium processing program, the agency guarantees a 15-day...more
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) sent a proposed H-1B registration rule to the Office of Management and Budget for review, signaling that it plans to move quickly to implement its plan to reform the so-called...more
The federal government entered a partial shutdown on December 22, 2018. With no end in sight as the shutdown enters its third week, many are wondering how the shutdown will affect immigration matters. To provide some insight...more
1/8/2019
/ Customs and Border Protection ,
Department of Labor (DOL) ,
E-Verify ,
EB-5 ,
Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) ,
Government Shutdown ,
I-129 ,
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) ,
OFLC ,
Passports ,
Popular ,
Ports of Entry ,
SEVP ,
US Department of State ,
USCIS ,
Visas