The United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) is expected to soon announce the fiscal year 2026 H-1B lottery registration period. Historically, the USCIS has opened the H-1B cap registration period in the...more
The H-1B Electronic Registration Selection Process debuted in March 2020 for fiscal year 2021 H-1B cap-subject petitions. The barrier to entry dropped significantly with the introduction of the electronic registration...more
4/8/2024
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Foreign Nationals ,
Foreign Workers ,
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H-1B ,
Immigration Procedures ,
Lottery ,
O-1 Aliens of Extraordinary Ability ,
OPT ,
STEM ,
Students ,
USCIS ,
Visa Caps ,
Visas
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is ending employers’ ability to remotely inspect I-9 documents on July 31, 2023. Employers will have an additional 30 days, until August...more
On July 20, 2021, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit held that the Immigration and Nationality Act (“INA”) precludes court review of a decision by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (“USCIS”) to revoke a...more
8/18/2021
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Dismissals ,
Foreign Nationals ,
Form I-140 Petitions ,
Immigration and Nationality Act ,
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PERM ,
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Sponsors ,
USCIS ,
Visas
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