In Chamber of Commerce, et al., v. DHS, et al., the U.S. District Court in California has set aside an interim final rule significantly altering prevailing wages to be paid to certain temporary and permanent foreign workers...more
12/4/2020
/ Administrative Procedure Act ,
Coronavirus/COVID-19 ,
Department of Homeland Security (DHS) ,
Department of Labor (DOL) ,
Good Cause ,
H-1B ,
Highly-Skilled Workers Visa ,
Immigration Procedures ,
Injunctions ,
Interim Final Rules (IFR) ,
Notice and Comment ,
Prevailing Wages ,
Trump Administration ,
Wage and Hour
On July 14, 2020, in response to a lawsuit filed by Harvard University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has agreed to rescind a policy that would have barred...more
7/16/2020
/ Colleges ,
Coronavirus/COVID-19 ,
Deportation ,
F-1 Visa ,
Foreign Students ,
Harvard University ,
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) ,
M-1 Visa ,
Massachusetts Institutie of Technology (MIT) ,
Remote Learning ,
SEVP ,
Trump Administration ,
Universities
President Trump issued a new executive order on June 22, 2020, which suspends the entry of foreign nationals on certain employment-based nonimmigrant visas (H-1B, H-2B, J, and L) into the United States. This executive order...more
President Trump has signed an executive order suspending the entry of certain students and researchers from China. The May 29 order was effective at 12:00 p.m. EDT on June 1, 2020, and will remain in effect until terminated...more
In the late evening of April 22, 2020, President Trump signed an executive order restricting certain categories of immigrants from entering the United States. This order is effective at 11:59 p.m. EDT on April 23, 2020, and...more
New guidelines from U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) will have implications for a number of employment-based immigration, family-based immigration and naturalization cases.
The new policy memorandum issued...more