The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) recently released a notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) with respect to the regulations governing the H-1B nonimmigrant visa classification. The proposed rule seeks to improve the...more
Eligible Israeli citizens and nationals who have a biometrically enabled passport book can begin applying for authorization to travel to the United States through the US Customs and Border Protection’s Electronic System for...more
The US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) will use the Dates for Filing Chart in November 2023. The US Department of State Visa Bulletin for November 2023 reflects no advancement in priority date cutoff dates in the...more
The US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) will use the Dates for Filing Chart in October 2023. The US Department of State Visa Bulletin for October 2023 reflects advancement for several visa classifications....more
The US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) will use the Final Action Dates for Employment-Based Adjustment of Status Applications chart in September 2023. The EB-2 final action cutoff date for Mexico, the...more
8/22/2023
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The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced on July 21, 2023 the modernization of the I-9 process following the COVID-19 pandemic, including through new guidelines expanding the use of E-Verify, the DHS’s...more
7/26/2023
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The US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) will use the Final Action Dates for Employment-Based Adjustment of Status Applications chart in August 2023, reflecting more than 10 years retrogression in the priority...more
The US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) will use the Final Action Dates for Employment-Based Adjustment of Status Applications chart in July 2023, reflecting significant retrogression for India EB-3 and Other...more
The US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) will use the Final Action Dates for Employment-Based Adjustment of Status Applications chart in June 2023, reflecting minimal changes in per-country priority date cutoffs....more
The US Citizenship and Immigration Services will use the Final Action Dates for Employment-Based Adjustment of Status Applications chart in May 2023. Chart updates include significant retrogression for the EB-2 and EB-3...more
The US Citizenship and Immigration Services will use the Final Action Dates for Employment-Based Adjustment of Status Applications chart in April 2023. Retrogressions of note include a 16-month retrogression for the India...more
The US Citizenship and Immigration Services will continue to use the Dates for Filing Chart in March 2023. There is retrogression in the Other Works category for All Chargeability areas, El Salvador, Guatemala, Mexico, and...more
With the recent announcement from the Biden administration that the COVID-19 national and public health emergencies will end this May, the temporary US Department of Homeland Security guidance that permitted businesses...more
The US Citizenship and Immigration Services will use the Dates for Filing chart in February 2023. There is retrogression in the Other Works category for All Chargeability areas, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, and...more
Employers should begin assessing their H-1B needs for fiscal year (FY) 2024 now. Each year, US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) releases dates for the H-1B cap registration processes by the end of January, with...more
The US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced that it will continue to roll out and finalize its expansion of premium processing eligibility for certain petitions and applications throughout the first half of...more
The US Citizenship and Immigration Services will use the Dates for Filing Chart in January 2023. Due to increased demand, an EB-1 cutoff date has been established for China and India. There are no other changes to the January...more
Wage transparency laws—quickly cropping up across more US state and local jurisdictions—govern employers’ requirements to disclose pay ranges to job applicants or potential applicants in job advertisements. Varying in scope,...more
The US Citizenship and Immigration Services will use the Dates for Filing chart in December 2022. Due to increased demand, a worldwide EB-2 Final Action cutoff date has been established. China EB-3 will advance by three...more
US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) on May 3 announced a temporary increase—up to 540 days—to the automatic extension period for employment authorization and employment authorization documents (EADs) for certain...more
In an effort to attract global talent to strengthen the economy, the Biden-Harris administration recently announced several immigration policy expansions geared towards students in Science, Technology, Engineering, and...more
In recent US immigration developments, the Department of State has authorized consular offices to forgo the in-person interview requirement for some nonimmigrant visa applicants. Further, President Joseph Biden has revoked...more
A settlement has been reached in Shergill v. Mayorkas, a federal lawsuit seeking to compel US Citizenship and Immigration Services to follow its regulations by automatically granting work permit extensions to L-2 and H-4...more
11/15/2021
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US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has extended a policy permitting acceptance of remote employment eligibility verification in limited circumstances through December 31, 2021.
On August 31, the day the current...more
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recently announced a new policy under which all applicants for a green card must be fully vaccinated against COVID-19. As part of the green card application process, all...more