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US Department of State Releases September 2024 Visa Bulletin

The US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) will use the Final Action Dates for Employment-Based Adjustment of Status Applications chart in September 2024. The Final Action Dates chart reflects significant EB-3...more

US Department of State Releases August 2024 Visa Bulletin

The US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) will use the Final Action Dates for Employment-Based Adjustment of Status Applications chart in August 2024. The Final Action Dates chart reflects one-month advancements in...more

US Department of State Releases July 2024 Visa Bulletin

The US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) will use the Final Action Dates for Employment-Based Adjustment of Status Applications chart in July 2024. The Final Action Dates chart reflects significant retrogression in...more

US Department of State Releases June 2024 Visa Bulletin

The US Citizenship and Immigration Services will use the Final Action Dates for Employment-Based Adjustment of Status Applications chart in June 2024. The Final Action Dates chart reflects minimal advancement, and the...more

US Department of State Releases May 2024 Visa Bulletin

The US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) will use the Final Action Dates for Employment-Based Adjustment of Status Applications chart in May 2024. The Final Action Dates chart reflects no advancement....more

US Department of State Releases April 2024 Visa Bulletin

The US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) will use the Final Action Dates for Employment-Based Adjustment of Status Applications chart in April 2024, reflecting modest advancement in several categories....more

US Department of State Releases March 2024 Visa Bulletin

The US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) will use the Final Action Dates chart in March 2024 for employment-based filings for adjustment of status. The utilization of the Final Action Dates chart will delay the...more

US Department of State Releases February 2024 Visa Bulletin

The US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) will use the Dates for Filing Chart in February 2024, reflecting no movement. The Final Action Chart reflects minimal advancement....more

Employers: Time to Begin Planning for the Fiscal Year 2025 H-1B Filing Season

Employers should begin evaluating their H-1B needs for fiscal year (FY) 2025. Each January, US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) releases dates for the H-1B cap registration processes, with registration generally...more

US Department of State Releases January 2024 Visa Bulletin

The US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) will use the Dates for Filing chart in January 2024. After two months of little to no movement in the visa bulletin, the second quarter of the fiscal year brings significant...more

Proposed H-1B Modernization – A Conversation with Shannon Donnelly

As part of our Spotlight series, we invited Shannon Donnelly, a partner in our Washington, DC office who works with clients on a wide range of complex global immigration and mobility issues, to discuss the proposed H1B...more

US Department of State Releases December 2023 Visa Bulletin

The US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) will use the Dates for Filing Chart in December 2023. The US Department of State Visa Bulletin for December 2023 reflects no advancement in priority date cutoff dates in the...more

DHS Proposes ‘Modernizing’ H-1B Specialty Occupation Worker Program

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

US Department of State Releases November 2023 Visa Bulletin

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

US Department of State Releases October 2023 Visa Bulletin

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

US Department of State Releases September 2023 Visa Bulletin

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

DHS Announces New Form I-9 and Document Verification Guidelines

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

US Department of State Releases August 2023 Visa Bulletin

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

US Department of State Releases July 2023 Visa Bulletin

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

US Department of State Releases June 2023 Visa Bulletin

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

US Department of State Releases May 2023 Visa Bulletin

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

US Department of State Releases April 2023 Visa Bulletin

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

US Department of State Releases March 2023 Visa Bulletin

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

Form I-9 Flexibility Provisions to End on July 31, 2023

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

Employers: H-1B Filing Season for Fiscal Year 2024 Is Here

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

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