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Gibney Anthony & Flaherty, LLP

Plan Now for FY 2026 H-1B Cap Registration: What Employers Need to Know

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) will conduct its annual electronic registration process for the Fiscal Year (FY) 2026 H-1B cap from March 7, 2024 to March 24, 2025. Employers seeking to register employees...more

Fisher Phillips

Top Workplace Immigration Predictions for 2025

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Our Immigration Practice Group thought leaders have pulled together their top predictions for the new year so that employers can get a running start to 2025....more

Littler

Immigration in the UK: Reform of Employers’ Reporting Duties and Immigration Skills Charge Exemptions

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The UK Home Office has published figures showing a large increase in work visas in the past year: 248,919 in the year ending September 2022 (up 82% from the pre-pandemic year ending December 2019). Paradoxically, despite a...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

President Trump Announces Plan for Immigration Reform

• On May 16, 2019, President Trump announced broad parameters of an immigration plan to address border security, interior enforcement, asylum policy, modernization of ports of entry and the current immigrant visa or “green...more

Proskauer Rose LLP

Travel Warning for TN Nonimmigrants in Economist Classification

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In a policy memorandum dated November 20, 2017, but actually made available to the public on December 18, the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) "clarified" that "an applicant to qualify for TN status...more

Burr & Forman

How the Supreme Court's Travel Ban Order Will Impact Businesses

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The United States Supreme Court recently stayed portions of two (2) U.S. Circuit Court opinions and allowed parts of President Trump’s travel ban to go into effect. Foreign nationals from Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria,...more

Morgan Lewis

US Supreme Court Grants Partial Stay, Permits Limited 90-Day Travel Ban

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The travel ban will go into force regarding “foreign nationals who lack any bona fide relationship with a person or entity in the United States.”...more

Fisher Phillips

Return Flight: Trump Issues Second Executive Order On Travel Ban

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In a second attempt to pass legal muster, President Trump signed another controversial executive order today altering the initial travel ban blocked by the federal courts. The executive order, effective March 16, 2017,...more

Jackson Lewis P.C.

Trump Administration Immigration Actions’ Disproportionate Impact on Certain Industries

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The food, construction, and healthcare sectors are concerned about fallout from the crackdown on immigration called for in Secretary John Kelly’s Implementation Memos, President Donald Trump’s travel ban, and possible new...more

Jackson Lewis P.C.

Immigration Law Enforcement and Visa Programs Focus of Draft Executive Order

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President Donald Trump had campaigned on prioritizing and protecting the interests of American workers and reducing unlawful employment of aliens. In a draft Executive Order, “Protecting American Jobs and Workers by...more

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Possible Changes to U.S. Business Immigration Law and Policy Under the New Administration

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This article covers proposed legislation, sub-regulatory changes, and—from a practical standpoint—the process/timing for implementing changes under the new administration. Please note that while legislative immigration...more

Epstein Becker & Green

Immigration Policy Choices Under the New Administration

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Now that the election is over, focus turns to the U.S. immigration policy of President-elect Donald J. Trump’s administration over the next four years. Forecasts of this type are never easy with any new President; the task is...more

Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer

The Potential Impact of the U.S. Presidential Election on Business Immigration

Immigration changes are widely expected to be a key focal point in President-elect Donald Trump’s administration. Although we do not yet have details on how specific policies and programs will be affected, below is a summary...more

Franczek P.C.

Department of State and Department of Homeland Security Announce a Major Change to the Visa Bulletin

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On September 9, 2015, the Department of State and Department of Homeland Security, acting through United States Citizenship and Immigration Services, announced that they were significantly revising Visa Bulletin procedures....more

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USCIS Announces Revised Procedures for Determining Visa Availability for Applicants Waiting to File for Adjustment of Status

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USCIS, in coordination with Department of State (DOS), is revising the procedures for determining visa availability for applicants waiting to file for employment-based or family-sponsored preference adjustment of status. The...more

Carlton Fields

Immigration Law for Startups: Common Visa Pitfalls

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This is the last of a three-part series that provides guidance to new or foreign companies that are entering the U.S. market and seeking to employ either foreign nationals already in the United States on non-working visas, or...more

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