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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 July 2025. The Final Action Dates chart shows slight advancement in several...more
President Trump signed a proclamation entitled “Restricting the Entry of Foreign Nationals to Protect the United States from Foreign Terrorists and Other National Security and Public Safety Threats.” This action reinstates...more
On April 30, 2025, the U.S. Department of State launched two new tools to monitor immigrant and nonimmigrant visa interview availability: (1) the Immigrant Visa (IV) Scheduling Status Tool, and (2) the Global Visa Wait Times...more
The US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) will use the Dates for Filing for Employment-Based Adjustment of Status Applications chart in January 2025. The Dates for Filing chart reflects no advancement....more
The U.S. Department of State announced a significant update to the Exchange Visitor Skills List, effective as of December 9, 2024. This action is in response to an Executive Order issued last year, in which the Biden...more
The Diversity Visa (DV) Lottery program, administered by the U.S. Department of State, allocates up to 55,000 immigrant visas annually through a random selection process from countries with low rates of immigration to the...more
The U.S. Department of State will begin accepting online registrations for the 2026 Diversity Visa (DV) lottery starting Wednesday, Oct. 2, 2024, at noon EDT. For Fiscal Year 2026 (FY2026), the DV lottery will allow a maximum...more
Online registration for the 2026 Diversity Visa Lottery (DV2026) opens Wednesday, October 2, 2024 at 12:00 PM (noon) Eastern Daylight Time (EDT) (GMT-4), and closes Tuesday, November 5, 2024 at 12:00 PM (noon) Eastern...more
The US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) will use the Final Action Dates for Employment-Based Adjustment of Status Applications chart in September 2024. The Final Action Dates chart reflects significant EB-3...more
The US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) will use the Final Action Dates for Employment-Based Adjustment of Status Applications chart in August 2024. The Final Action Dates chart reflects one-month advancements in...more
The US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) will use the Final Action Dates for Employment-Based Adjustment of Status Applications chart in April 2024, reflecting modest advancement in several categories....more
The U.S. Department of State (DOS) reports a smooth start and a lower volume of applications than it anticipated when it launched a pilot program in January of 2024. The initiative allowed individuals whose last H-1B visa was...more
The U.S. Department of State has released details on a proposed pilot program testing the agency’s ability to resume domestic visa renewals for certain nonimmigrant visa categories and to study the effect the program has on...more
The Department of State (DOS) appears primed to renew the practice of domestic visa renewal for at least some foreign nationals in 2024. DOS sent a Federal Register notice titled Pilot Program to Resume Renewal of H-1B...more
The US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) will use the Dates for Filing Chart in November 2023. The US Department of State Visa Bulletin for November 2023 reflects no advancement in priority date cutoff dates in the...more
Diversity Visa (DV) Electronic Registration for Fiscal Year (FY) 2025 opens at noon ET on October 4, 2023, and closes at noon ET on November 7, 2023. There will be 55,000 Diversity Visas available for FY 2025....more
On October 4, 2023, at noon EDT, the U.S. Department of State will open the annual Diversity Visa (DV) lottery registration period for fiscal year (FY) 2025. The online registration program is free to all registrants (only...more
The U.S. Department of State (DOS) Bureau of Consular Affairs announced that the online registration period for the 2025 Diversity Immigrant Visa Program (DV Program), also known as the Green Card Lottery, will begin on...more
The US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) will use the Final Action Dates for Employment-Based Adjustment of Status Applications chart in September 2023. The EB-2 final action cutoff date for Mexico, the...more
With waits for green cards of up to 10 years, many foreign professionals have faced the nightmare scenario in which their children reach age 21 before the children receive their green cards, meaning that they age out of the...more
During a recent interview with Bloomberg Law, Julie Stufft, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Visa Services in the Bureau of Consular Affairs, announced that the U.S. Department of State will launch a pilot program later in 2023...more
The Department of State released the January 2023 Visa Bulletin. As forecasted in our Fiscal Year 2023 visa availability analysis, we are now seeing the retrogression for Indian and Chinese nationals in the EB-1 category....more
The Diversity Visa (DV) Lottery is open for FY 2024. Applications may be filed online until 12:00 p.m. ET on November 8, 2022. The DV Lottery program makes 50,000 immigrant visas (“green cards”) available every year to...more
The U.S. Department of State (DOS) has announced the opening of the registration period for the DV-2024 Diversity Immigrant Visa Program. The Diversity Visa (DV) Lottery Program enables foreign nationals to apply for...more
Online registration for the 2024 DV Lottery (DV2024) opened Wednesday, October 5, 2022 at 12:00 PM (noon) Eastern Daylight Time (EDT) (GMT-4), and closes Tuesday, November 8, 2022 at 12:00 PM (noon) Eastern Standard Time...more