By Donald W. Parker, Immigration Attorney On January 31, 2019, the US Department of Homeland Security promulgated a final regulation that makes several important changes in the H-1B lottery process, which we briefly addressed in our recently published alert about…
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H-1B Cap Filing Window Still Scheduled to Open April 1
Changes Help Foreign Workers with Advanced U.S. Degrees By Grant Godfrey, Immigration Attorney U.S. Employers continue to struggle to fill highly-skilled positions, particularly in the Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) fields where well-educated U.S. workers with the required experience…
Temporary Entry Provisions of NAFTA Appear to Emerge Unscathed in the Proposed Text of the USMCA
By Grant Godfrey On October 1, 2018, the Office of the United States Trade Representative published the text of the proposed United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (“USMCA”), which is meant to replace the North American Free Trade Agreement (“NAFTA”). Since it went…
H-1B Premium Processing Update
USCIS Announces Extension and Expansion of the Suspension of H-1B Premium Processing and an Increase in the Premium Processing Filing Fee
Will This Be the Last H-1B Visa Cap Craze?
By John Gallini and Grant Godfrey It has been open season for attacks on the H-1B program and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) under the Trump Administration is aiming to make U.S. employer sponsorship of foreign worker visas more…
The Effect of the Government Shut Down on Immigration Matters
By Grant Godfrey and Donald Parker Like the proverbial needle that is playing a broken record, we are again in a situation where Congress has waited until the last minute to try to pass a stopgap spending bill that will…
H-1B Rumors: Proposed Change to Post-6th Year Extension Rules
By Donald Parker and Grant Godfrey On December 30, 2017, the McClatchy DC Bureau news service reported that according to two sources in the Trump Administration, the Administration is investigating whether it can limit the current rules which allow post-6th…
Trump Administration Takes Aim at H-4 EADs
At this time, no specific rule has been proposed, however, this is a strong indicator that one will be forthcoming and that H-4 EADs will eventually be taken away.
Trump Administration Quietly Changes 25-Year-Old Rules Related To Misrepresentations
In September and October of 2017, the State Department quietly changed the rules that consular officers must follow when determining whether a foreign national has made a misrepresentation of a material fact.
The Rescission of the DACA Program
On September 5, 2017, President Trump announced that the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (“DACA”) program will be ending. DACA was put in place by the Obama Administration in June of 2012. It provided a period of deferred action from…
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