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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 May 2025. The Final Action Dates chart shows no movement except for a...more
On April 11, 2025, the Alien Registration Requirement established by President Donald Trump’s Jan. 20 executive order, Protecting the American People Against Invasion, went into effect. One of the most frequently overlooked...more
Each January, US Citizenship and Immigration Services releases dates for the H-1B cap registration processes, with registration typically opening in early March. While awaiting USCIS’s announcement detailing this year’s...more
In a Public Engagement Announcement posted last week, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced expansions of its existing online filing capabilities. Specifically, starting in February 2024, USCIS will...more
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) will increase premium processing fees for a number of immigration benefit applications due to inflation. The fee increases, outlined below, will take effect on February 26,...more
As anticipated, on December 21, 2023, the Department of State (DOS) published the Federal Register notice announcing its stateside visa renewal pilot program for H-1B visa holders. The notice outlines the program requirements...more
The U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Consular Affairs has released the Visa Bulletin for April 2023. The new Visa Bulletin reflects an ongoing trend of backlogs and slowdowns in the visa process, in stark contrast to the...more
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has confirmed that it will accept employment-based I-485, adjustment of status applications, based on the U.S. Department of State’s monthly Visa Bulletin’s “Dates for Filing”...more
USCIS announced that the initial electronic registration period for the fiscal year (FY) 2024 H-1B cap season will run from noon Eastern on March 1 through noon Eastern on March 17, 2023....more
People always say that a new year brings new adventures, new hope and new resolutions. In the immigration world, a new year can bring us a new version of immigration forms, new filing requirements and even more. In January...more
It’s that time of year again when employers have to decide who they are sponsoring for an H-1B visa. What to Know - - The lottery registration period will be from noon EST on March 1, 2022 to noon EST on March 18, 2022,...more
Fiscal Year 2020 H-1B Cap Petition Filings Are Not Eligible for Premium Processing - On March 12, 2019, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (“USCIS”) opened premium processing eligibility for all H-1B petitions...more
Every January, employers begin making preparing for the H-1B visa filing season so they will be ready for the H-1B cap filing deadline on April 1st. Filing H-1B petitions typically come with a degree of anxiety given the visa...more
On June 26, 2017, US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) introduced a redesigned version of Form I-485, Application to Register Permanent Residence or Adjust Status. This form is used in the final stage of the...more
This alert is a reminder of the rapidly approaching April 1, 2015 deadline for the filing of H-1B visa petitions for Fiscal Year 2016. Petitions for the new fiscal year, which starts on October 1, 2015, will be accepted by...more