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H-1B Premium Processing

Today USCIS resumed premium processing for fiscal year 2019 H-1B cap petitions. Premium processing remains suspended for H-1B changes of employer, amendments and non-cap subject changes of status.

H-1B Cap Preregistration

Today the Office of Management and Budget approved the H-1B preregistration requirement. We expect that the final H-1B rule will be published in the Federal Register sometime this week.

Today DHS published a notice identifying 84 countries whose nationals are eligible to participate in the H-2A program and 81 countries whose nationals are eligible to participate in the H-2B program for the coming year. …

What Happens if the Government Shuts Down?

If Congress and the President cannot come to an agreement on a spending bill or continuing resolution by midnight December 21, 2018, approximately 25 percent of government functions will shut down. Impacted would be the Department …

Proposed changes to the H-1B lottery

On December 3, 2018, DHS published a notice of proposed rulemaking to make significant changes to the H-1B allocation process, the H-1B lottery. Under the proposed rule, U.S. employers seeking to file H-1B cap-subject petitions would …

USCIS announces the termination of self-scheduled InfoPass appointments

In 2019, the USCIS plans to expand its Information Services Modernization Program throughout the US. This expansion will end self-scheduled InfoPass appointments and directs applicants to use the USCIS website to view general how-to information, access …

How Trump administration plans to screen green card applicants’ use of government welfare benefits

Please find here an interesting article on USA Today.

“…but I don’t get paid in the U.S.” or May a foreign national without U.S. work-permit work remotely from within the U.S. for an employer abroad?

Foreign nationals often ask me if, or most often just assume, that they can be employed by an employer abroad while physically present in the U.S. without a specific work authorization. Since Congress has never …

Diversity Green Card Lottery for Fiscal Year 2020 open now

It’s time again for the Department of State’s annual green card lottery which issues 50,000 green cards to persons from countries with historically low rates of immigration to the U.S. This year’s registration it is …

U.S. citizens applying for green cards for noncitizen spouses see growing waits

Please find here an interesting article on NBC News.