Categories: General – Posted on April 13, 2015 233,000 Reasons to Fix the Broken H-1B Program U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services announced today that it received nearly 233,000 H-1B petitions for 85,000 slots last week. Horrible. … Continue reading >233,000 Reasons to Fix the Broken H-1B Program
Categories: General – Posted on April 7, 2015 Now That The H-1B Cap Is Full It comes as no surprise that the U.S.’s H-1B cap is full, once again, in the first week. A lottery … Continue reading >Now That The H-1B Cap Is Full
Categories: General – Posted on March 27, 2015 USCIS Issues L-1B Adjudications Policy Memo U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services issued a long awaited memo on L-1B adjudications. L-1Bs are intracompany transfers who are transferred … Continue reading >USCIS Issues L-1B Adjudications Policy Memo
Categories: General – Posted on March 16, 2015 U.S. and Canada Sign Pre-Clearance Agreement The U.S. and Canada announced today the signing of a pre-clearance agreement, which is intended to ease border congestion and … Continue reading >U.S. and Canada Sign Pre-Clearance Agreement
Categories: General – Posted on March 2, 2015March 2, 2015 H-1B Cap Subject Petitions Accepted on April 1st for Anticipated Lottery H-1B cap-subject petitions will be accepted by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) on April 1st. The H-1B category is … Continue reading >H-1B Cap Subject Petitions Accepted on April 1st for Anticipated Lottery
Categories: General – Posted on February 24, 2015February 27, 2015 Certain H-4 Dependents Able to Apply for Employment Authorization Beginning May 26 USCIS published its much anticipated rule for H-4s to apply for work authorization. H-4 holders are dependents of H-1B professionals. … Continue reading >Certain H-4 Dependents Able to Apply for Employment Authorization Beginning May 26
Categories: General – Posted on February 19, 2015February 19, 2015 Expanded DACA, DAPA on Hold After Preliminary Injunction President Obama’s attempt to expand the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) and implementation of the Deferred Action for Parents … Continue reading >Expanded DACA, DAPA on Hold After Preliminary Injunction
Categories: General – Posted on February 13, 2015 Expanded DACA Scheduled for February 18th, Absent Court Intervention U.S. Citizenship & Immigration Services is scheduled to begin accepting a wider range of applicants under the Deferred Action for … Continue reading >Expanded DACA Scheduled for February 18th, Absent Court Intervention
Categories: General – Posted on February 4, 2015 New Enrollment Center for NEXUS in Birch Bay Here’s a press release from CBP, issued on January 29th, announcing a new NEXUS enrollment center in Birch Bay, just … Continue reading >New Enrollment Center for NEXUS in Birch Bay
Categories: General – Posted on January 20, 2015 High Skilled Immigration Reforms Proposed: The Immigration Innovation Act of 2015 Last week a bipartisan group of Senators introduced the Immigration Innovation Act of 2015 (S. 153). Commonly referred to as … Continue reading >High Skilled Immigration Reforms Proposed: The Immigration Innovation Act of 2015
