In Chamber of Commerce, et al., v. DHS, et al., the U.S. District Court in California has set aside an interim final rule significantly altering prevailing wages to be paid to certain temporary and permanent foreign workers...more
12/4/2020
/ Administrative Procedure Act ,
Coronavirus/COVID-19 ,
Department of Homeland Security (DHS) ,
Department of Labor (DOL) ,
Good Cause ,
H-1B ,
Highly-Skilled Workers Visa ,
Immigration Procedures ,
Injunctions ,
Interim Final Rules (IFR) ,
Notice and Comment ,
Prevailing Wages ,
Trump Administration ,
Wage and Hour
On September 24, 2020, the Department of State published the October Visa Bulletin, the first of the new government fiscal year (FY 2021). USCIS announced on the same day that it would utilize the "Dates for Filing of...more
On July 14, 2020, in response to a lawsuit filed by Harvard University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has agreed to rescind a policy that would have barred...more
7/16/2020
/ Colleges ,
Coronavirus/COVID-19 ,
Deportation ,
F-1 Visa ,
Foreign Students ,
Harvard University ,
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) ,
M-1 Visa ,
Massachusetts Institutie of Technology (MIT) ,
Remote Learning ,
SEVP ,
Trump Administration ,
Universities
President Trump issued a new executive order on June 22, 2020, which suspends the entry of foreign nationals on certain employment-based nonimmigrant visas (H-1B, H-2B, J, and L) into the United States. This executive order...more
President Trump has signed an executive order suspending the entry of certain students and researchers from China. The May 29 order was effective at 12:00 p.m. EDT on June 1, 2020, and will remain in effect until terminated...more
Due to stay-at-home orders currently in place, in many states employees may experience challenges renewing a state driver's license or other List B identity document for purposes of Form I-9 Employment Eligibility...more
In the late evening of April 22, 2020, President Trump signed an executive order restricting certain categories of immigrants from entering the United States. This order is effective at 11:59 p.m. EDT on April 23, 2020, and...more
U.S. - Canada Border Closure -
On March 18, 2020, the United States and Canada announced that all non-essential travel between the U.S. and Canada will be temporarily suspended....more
3/20/2020
/ Coronavirus/COVID-19 ,
Cross-Border ,
Cross-Border Transactions ,
Emergency Management Plans ,
Immigration Procedures ,
International Travel ,
Operators of Essential Services ,
State of Emergency ,
Travel Ban ,
Travel Restrictions ,
Visas
U.S. Embassy and Consulate posts throughout India announced today that in light of the global COVID-19 pandemic, all immigrant and nonimmigrant visa appointments scheduled on Monday, March 16, 2020, onward have been...more
On January 31, 2020, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) published a new version of Form I-9, Employment Eligibility Verification, which has a 10/21/2019 version date (located in the lower left corner of the...more
On January 31, 2019, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) issued a final rule making significant changes to the H-1B CAP lottery process. This rule added an electronic registration requirement for employers...more
1/17/2020
/ Electronic Filing ,
Filing Deadlines ,
Filing Fees ,
H-1B ,
Highly-Skilled Workers Visa ,
Immigration Procedures ,
Labor Condition Applications ,
Lottery ,
OPT ,
Registration Requirement ,
USCIS ,
Visa Caps ,
Visas
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services has announced that on June 10, the agency will begin Premium Processing Service for all remaining FY 2020 H-1B cap-subject petitions (containing either a Change of Status or Consular...more
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has announced that it has completed data entry for all 2019 (Fiscal Year 2020) H-1B cap-subject petitions that were selected in the lottery process.
USCIS sends receipt...more
The H-1B program allows companies in the United States to temporarily employ foreign workers in specialty occupations. H-1B specialty occupations are positions that require the theoretical and practical application of a body...more
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has published a revised final policy memorandum, "Accrual of Unlawful Presence and F, J, and M Nonimmigrants," with an immediate effective date of August 9, 2018. With the...more
The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced that it is extending its temporary suspension (which has been in effect since April 1, 2018) of premium processing for "cap-subject" H-1B petitions. This...more
New guidelines from U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) will have implications for a number of employment-based immigration, family-based immigration and naturalization cases.
The new policy memorandum issued...more