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The initial months of President Donald Trump’s second term have seen the administration enact several significant new immigration policies that have immediate implications for employers across the United States. Understanding...more
On October 23, 2023, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) released a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM), which the agency indicates will modernize and improve the H-1B specialty occupation worker program. DHS states...more
On October 23, 2023, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) issued a notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) to amend its H-1B regulations. The proposal also includes provisions that would change the H-1B cap...more
The Department of Homeland Security has published a Notice of Proposed Rule Making (NPRM or the Rule) entitled “Modernizing H-1B Requirements, Providing Flexibility in the F-1 Program, and Program Improvements Affecting Other...more
On October 23, 2023, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) released a notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) to amend its current regulations to modernize the H-1B visa program. DHS will accept public comments until...more
On the heels of the U.S. Department of Labor’s announcing plans to revise its H-2A program, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is proposing amendments to its H-2A and H-2B regulations. The proposed changes would...more
USCIS has proposed raising its filing fees – and the burden of those increased fees will fall primarily on employers large and small. For example, the filing fee for an H-1B visa would be raised by 70% from $460 to $780....more
On January 4, 2023, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) issued a Notice of Prospective Rulemaking proposing a sweeping fee hike for immigration services across the board. The proposed fee increases range between...more
On January 4, 2023, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) that would increase fees for specific immigration and naturalization benefit requests. The department’s U.S....more
For more than two years, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has been allowing employers with remote workers to review Form I-9 Employment Verification Authorization documents virtually...more
A federal judge in California struck down two Trump administration rules that substantially altered the H-1B visa program for temporary professional workers and increased wage obligations for businesses employing certain...more
Election 2020: Patience Required. Voting in the 2020 elections wraps up in just four days, on November 3, 2020. However, due to many tight races and the unprecedented volume of mail-in ballots (and states’ differing rules on...more
On November 14, 2019 the Trump Administration proposed increasing the cost of filing many types of non-immigrant and immigrant visa applications. The proposed rule to implement these fees increases is currently open for...more
If you have applied for an immigration benefit lately (temporary visa, permanent residence), you know the indignities of the process - especially in recent times. Slower decisions, outlandish requests for evidence, and no...more
On September 3, 2019, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced a notice of proposed rulemaking that would require employers seeking to file H-1B cap subject petitions to pay a $10 fee for each electronic...more
Every January, employers begin making preparing for the H-1B visa filing season so they will be ready for the H-1B cap filing deadline on April 1st. Filing H-1B petitions typically come with a degree of anxiety given the visa...more
• Prior to submitting petitions for H-1B visas, employers first will be required to register electronically with USCIS during a designated registration period. • DHS proposes to use a computer-generated process to select a...more
For many years, on the first business day of April, 200,000 or more H-1B cap petitions were filed with U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services for approximately 85,000 available spots. H-1B petitions for individuals with...more
On April 1, 2019, USCIS will begin accepting cap subject H-1B professional worker petitions for a start date of October 1, 2019 (FY2020). Due to the high demand for H-1B visas and newly proposed rulemaking for cap-subject...more
The Department of Homeland Security (“DHS”) announced a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (“Notice”) on Friday that would require companies seeking first-time H-1B approvals subject to the statutory cap or lottery (also known as...more
The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) and Department of Homeland Security (DHS) last week proposed a new rule that will allow certain immigrant startup founders to receive “parole” or temporary permission to...more
Current visa options limit the ability of foreign national entrepreneurs to start and grow companies in the United States. As a result, the United States is less able to attract the world’s very best and most innovative...more
Last Wednesday, the Department of Homeland Security (“DHS”) announced a proposal that would allow foreign entrepreneurs to enter the United States to operate high-growth, job-creating startup enterprises. As with other...more
Earlier this month, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) issued notice of a proposed rule that would update the application fee schedule for U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), noting an overall...more
The United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has proposed increasing the fees that United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) charges for certain immigration and naturalization filings. The proposal...more