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The United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) is a federal agency under the umbrella of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security that oversees lawful immigration to the United States. The USCIS performs a broad variety of administrative functions, including processing visa and naturalization petitions, as well as applications for asylum and refugee status. less -

Looking for an Alternative to the H-1B Visa Lottery? Consider These 8 Options for Employing Foreign Nationals

Fisher Phillips on 6/13/2024

Missing out on the H-1B visa lottery can be disheartening, but it’s not necessarily the end of the road. If you employ foreign nationals, the good news is that you can explore certain short-term, long-term, and even some...more

Multinational executives and managers and applicants for National Interest Waivers can now apply for green cards on an expedited...

Fox Rothschild LLP on 1/16/2023

On January 12, 2023 U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services announced the implementation of the final phase of the premium processing expansion for Form I-140, Immigrant Petition for Alien Workers, under the EB-1 and EB-2...more

Didn’t Make the H-1B Cap? Planning, Not Practice, Makes Perfect: 8 More Ways to Employ Foreign Nationals

Fisher Phillips on 9/19/2022

If you employ foreign nationals, you likely know that the federal government already reached the H-1B visa cap for the fiscal year and informed registrants who were not selected. Although employers expected the August 23...more

USCIS Expands Premium Processing in Further Effort to Reduce Immigration Backlog and Processing Delays

Fisher Phillips on 6/1/2022

Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, processing delays have plagued the USCIS and frustrated many employers and foreign nationals applying for and extending their visas. At its peak in January 2022, the USCIS had a...more

Immigration Stability Amidst Corporate Restructuring: U.S. Immigration Service Announces Clarifications for Multinational Managers...

Dorsey & Whitney LLP on 6/2/2020

The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service (“USCIS”) recently announced it has adopted an administrative law decision that clarifies issues relating to the transfer of multinational executives and managers from foreign...more

USCIS Clarifies that in the Event of a Merger, Multinational Executives or Managers Seeking Permanent Residence under the EB-1...

Dorsey & Whitney LLP on 5/22/2020

The United States Citizenship and Immigration Service (“USCIS”) announced that it has adopted a May 5, 2020 Administrative Appeals Office (“AAO”) decision Matter of F-M- Co., which concerns immigrant petitions in the EB-1...more

Managing a Multi-National Workforce: Sponsorship Agreements, Retention Policies and Liquidated Damages

Harris Beach PLLC on 10/29/2019

In our ever-increasing multi-multinational workforce that seems to rely more heavily on foreign labor options, it’s important for employers to have policies in place that provide a level of financial protection in their...more

Compass: Insights And Direction for Employers - October 2018

Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart,... on 10/4/2018

Welcome to the inaugural issue of our new quarterly newsletter, Ogletree Deakins Compass. We hope you enjoy the publication, which contains some of the familiar features of the Employment Law Authority, but also has a few new...more

USCIS Establishes New Five-Prong Test for “Function Managers”

Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart,... on 11/28/2017

Multinational companies that wish to transfer managerial employees to the United States now have clarification on the criteria required to do so. A new five-prong test adopted by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services...more

The L-1 Category: 3 Tips to Help Your Petition Withstand Scrutiny When Filing at USCIS

Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart,... on 7/17/2017

With the annual H-1B visa cap posing considerable staffing issues for U.S. employers requiring highly skilled workers, multinational corporations may increasingly turn to the L-1 visa to meet their need for knowledgeable,...more

Presidential Pulse: 10 Key Ways the Trump Administration May Impact The Way You Do Business in 2017

Seyfarth Shaw LLP on 12/13/2016

Today marks just over a month since Donald Trump was elected as the next President of the United States. As each cabinet appointment is announced, we get more clues to help us predict which direction the Trump...more

September 2016 Special Immigration Alert

Epstein Becker & Green on 9/27/2016

I. DOS Announces 2018 Diversity Lottery - The U.S. Department of State (“DOS”) just released its instructions for the DV-2018 Diversity Visa (DV-2018) lottery. The registration period begins on Tuesday, October 4,...more

New Blanket L Form Reflects Heightened Scrutiny of Outsourcing Companies

Obermayer Rebmann Maxwell & Hippel LLP on 8/25/2016

In recent years the L-1 Intra-Company transfer visa program has come under scrutiny. Critics of the program, which allows a multinational company to transfer an executive, manager, or worker with “special knowledge” from a...more

New USCIS Policy Decision Broadens Permissible Bases for Visa Transfer of Multinational Managers

Foley & Lardner LLP on 6/29/2016

After four years of internal deliberations, U.S. Citizenship & Immigration Services (USCIS) recently issued a policy memorandum binding all USCIS personnel to follow the reasoning of a 2013 USCIS Administrative Appeals Office...more

The Other EB Visa for Foreign Investors? EB-1(c) Visas as an Alternative to the EB-5 Visa

Gerald Nowotny - Law Office of Gerald R.... on 9/2/2015

Overview - I have written a few articles regarding the over-promotion of the EB-5 visa program from the standpoint that frequently the foreign investor’s desire for a Green Card is over-zealous before considering all of...more

New Specialized Knowledge Standards Coming for L-1B Transfers

Dickinson Wright on 8/31/2015

Multinational companies wishing to transfer foreign national employees to the U.S. under the L-1B program will have to show the employee’s “specialized knowledge” by a “preponderance of evidence” under new guidance published...more

The New L-1B Adjudications Policy, Effective August 31

Franczek P.C. on 8/31/2015

The recently issued U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) final policy memorandum on L-1B visas clarifies the requirements for a sponsoring multinational organization transferring international personnel to the...more

Williams Mullen FDI USA Newsletter - June 2015

Williams Mullen on 6/3/2015

- In this Issue: - Welcome - About Us - Results Of 2015 SelectUSA Summit - 2015 Upcoming Events - RAISING CAPITAL: Simplifying the U.S. Capital Markets - Recent FDI Success Stories - FDI...more

Immigration Corner: H-1B Cap FY2016 and Aftermath, "Doing Business" for Multinational Managers, myE-Verify Available Nationwide

Baker Donelson on 5/20/2015

If you filed an H-1B petition that did not get accepted for processing under the FY2016 Cap, you are not alone. This year a record number of 233,000 petitions were filed in a mad scramble for the annual supply of 85,000 new...more

Alternatives to the H-1B Visa: A New L-1B Adjudication Standard?

Franczek P.C. on 4/10/2015

As expected, the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced that it has met the FY2016 H-1B cap during the first week of the new filing season. Over the next few weeks, many employers who filed H-1B...more

AAO Finds USCIS Impermissibly Redefines Showing of Specialized Knowledge

Foley & Lardner LLP on 4/10/2013

The Administrative Appeals Office of U.S. Citizenship & Immigration Services, otherwise known as the AAO, recently reversed a finding by U.S. Citizenship & Immigration Services (USCIS) that had denied approval of an L-1B...more

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