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Update to Form I-192, Application for Advance Permission to Enter as a Nonimmigrant. New Edition Dated Dec. 2, 2019. 12/02/2019 12:00 AM EST ...
USCIS to Publish Revised Form I-539 and New Form I-539A We have revised Form I-539, Application to Extend/Change Nonimmigrant Status and will publish the revised form on our website o...
JAN 30 DHS Announces Final Rule for a More Effective and Efficient H-1B Visa Program The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) posted today for public inspection, a final rule...
USCIS Adjusting Premium Processing Fee Fee Increase Consistent with the Consumer Price Index WASHINGTON - U.S. Citizenship and Immigra...
USCIS is extending the previously announced temporary suspension of premium processing for cap-subject H-1B petitions and, beginning Sept. 11, 2018, will be expandin...
USCIS Completes the H-1B Cap Random Selection Process for FY 2019 On April 11, USCIS used a computer-generated random selection process to select enough H-1B petitions to meet the congressional...
USCIS Reaches FY 2019 H-1B Cap USCIS has reached the congressionally-mandated 65,000 H-1B visa cap for fiscal year 2019. USCIS has also received a sufficient number of H-1B petitions to meet th...
On Feb. 21, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) began receiving H-2B cap-subject petitions for the second half of fiscal year 2018. During the first five business days USCIS recei...
Federal Appeals Court Grants Abeyance in H-4 EAD Lawsuit, but Program Still in Jeopardy 22 Feb 2018 Yesterday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit granted the Tru...
February 2018 Preliminary Injunction on Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals The scope of the preliminary injunction issued on February 13, 2018 in the Eastern District of New York is the sam...
Fiscal Year 2017 H-1B Cap Premium Processing to Begin May 12 On May 12, 2016, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) will begin premium processing for cap-subjec...
Federal Register Comment Period for Revised Form I-485, Application to Register Permanent Residence or Adjust Status On March 31, 2016, USCIS published a 60-day notice...
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Updated Instruction for Using the DOS Visa Bulletin Beginning with the November 2015 Department of State (DOS) Visa Bulletin, if USCIS determines that there are more immigr...
H-1B and L-1 petitions filed on or after Oct. 1, 2015, should not include the additional fee that was previously required by Section 402 of Public Law 111-230, as amended by Public Law 111-347, for...
DOS Publishes Updated Visa Bulletin for October 2015 On Sept. 25, the Department of State (DOS) published an updated Visa Bulletin for October 2015. This bulletin supersede...
USCIS Suspends Final Adjudication of Employment-Based Adjustment Applications for the Remainder of FY 2015 Starting today, USCIS will suspend final adjudication of employment-based Form I-4...
New Visa Bulletin Charts The Visa Bulletin will now have two different charts because of the revised procedures. DOS will post two charts per visa preference category in the DOS Visa Bulletin. ...
17 Months OPT Extension In Jeopardy ?? Federal court on Wednesday declared that the DHS rule which permits an extension of 17 months of OPT time to STEM graduates is inva...
USCIS Returns Unselected Fiscal Year 2016 H-1B Cap-Subject Petitions USCIS announced on July 14, 2015, that it completed processing the return of fiscal year 2016 H-1B cap-...
H4 EAD Injuction Denied!1 The Honourable Judge Tanya Chutkan of the United States District Court for the District Court of Columbia denied plaintiff’s, Save Jobs USA, the motion for preli...
Starting May 26, 2015, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) will temporarily suspend premium processing for all H-1B Extension of Stay petitions until July 27, 2015. During this time f...
Lawsuit Filed to Stop H4 EAD Rule! A lawsuit has been filed against DHS (Dept. of Homeland Security) by “Save Jobs USA” group on April 23rd, 2015 to stop H4 EAD rule. “Sav...
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced on April 7, 2015 that it has received enough H-1B petitions to reach the statutory cap of 65,000 visas for fiscal year (FY) 2016. USCIS h...
USCIS Reaches FY 2016 H-1B Cap Release Date: April 07, 2015 WASHINGTON – U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has reached the congressionally mandated H-1B cap for fiscal...
USCIS Will Accept H-1B Petitions for Fiscal Year 2016 Beginning April 1, 2015 On April 1, 2015, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) will begin accepting H-1B petitions subject to ...
DHS Extends Eligibility for Employment Authorization to Certain H-4 Dependent Spouses of H-1B Nonimmigrants Seeking Employment-Based Lawful Permanent Residence Release Date: February 24, 2015 ...
H4 EAD Update – Good News! A very good news for H4 spouses who are waiting for the EAD Updates. The step 7 (Preparation of Final Rule, Interim Final Rule or Direct Final Rule) o...
USCIS will begin accepting new h1b visa quota based applications on April 1, 2015. The earliest start work date will be October 1, 2015. We are currently accepting and preparing H-1B peti...
President Obama Acts on Deportation Relief for Millions President Barack Obama on Thursday announced broad executive action to offer temporary relief from deportation to millions of undocument...
USCIS Website Gets a New Look and Enhanced Tools On Friday, Nov. 7, USCIS’ website will have a new look and a better Case Status tool. Our updated homepage for www.uscis.go...
The step 6 (Public Comments) of the H4 EAD rule making process is Complete. There was a huge response for this rule from the H-1B and H4 community. Highlights of Public Comments: ·&n...
USCIS published the pending I-485 inventory with data as of July 21, 2014. Our Green Card Tracker has been updated with the new data. To learn more, please visit the Frequently Asked Questions or c...
According to a few sources who attended a recent national conference held by the AILA (American Immigration Lawyers Association) in Boston Massachusetts, it is predicted that EB-2 priority dates wi...
EB-2 Priority Dates are released by the USCIS for July 2014. The EB2 Priority Dates for India has finally moved to 1st September 2008! The July 2014 Visa Bulletin is accessible at: htt...
The 2014 cap for H-1B visas lottery quota has been met by the US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) and employers that filed petitions has started receiving that inevitable brown envelope...
DHS published the H4 EAD proposed rule in the federal register. This is the 5th step in the rule making process. This proposed rule is open for comments from May 12th, 2014 to ...
USCIS announced today that it has received a sufficient number of H-1B petitions to reach the statutory cap for fiscal year (FY) 2015. USCIS has also received more than the limit of 20,000 H-...
WITH the US House of Representatives showing zero initiative towards overhauling the nation’s immigrations laws, it appears that H-1B visas for FY 2015 will run out on April 1, 2014, six...
SOME POINTERS FOR H-1B SEASON 2014 by Alan Lee, Esq. † Beginning on April 1, 2014, the application period for capped FY-2015 H-1B petitions with work beginning on&nbs...