Starting on August 1, 2016, USCIS has announced that all E-Verify users will have to log in every 270 days to have maintain their E-Verify accounts. E-Verify is a voluntary USCIS program which permits employers register and then check new…
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USCIS Announces That Certain H-1B Petitions Are to be Filed With the Nebraska Service Center
USCIS has advised that effective July 1, 2016, the Nebraska Service Center (NSC) of USCIS will begin accepting certain H-1B petitions in which the employer seeks to continue previously approved employment without change with the same employer. The Vermont Service…
Fiscal Year 2017 H-1B Update: USCIS Completes Random Selection of H-1B Lottery Winners
On May 2, 2016, USCIS announced that it had completed its random selection of H-1B petition “lottery” winners for cap-subject H-1B filings for fiscal year 2017. For those petitions selected, USCIS asks petitioners to wait until they receive a fee…
GAO testimony on improvements for the EB-5 program
In February 2016, a House committee heard testimony on needed improvements to the EB-5 immigrant investor program. Rebecca Gambler, a Director of the U.S. Government Accountability Office’s (GAO) Homeland Security and Justice Team, testified before the U.S. House of Representative’s…
USCIS Reaches H-1B Cap For Fiscal Year 2017 in 7 Days
On April 7, 2016, USCIS announced that it had received more H-1B petitions that the statutory annual limit for H-1B employer filings for Fiscal Year 2017. Federal law permits a maximum of 65,0000 first time H-1B petitions, and an additional…
USCIS Expands Continued Work Authorization for Certain Nonimmigrants Pending Petition Approval
New USCIS regulations permit certain nonimmigrants to continue their employment for up to 240 days after their status has expired if their employer has timely filed with USCIS to extend their stay in the United States. Effective February 16, 2016,…
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Senate Holds Hearing on High Skilled H-1B Workers as FY 2017 H-1B Season Begins
The Senate held a hearing on February 25, 2016 on the H-1B high skilled worker program just as employers around the United States are preparing to file for foreign nationals to fill key roles on a temporary basis. The H-1B…
USCIS Publishes Proposed Rules Affecting Highly Skilled Immigrants and Nonimmigrants
The United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has published proposed rules that would affect certain employment based immigrant and nonimmigrant visa programs. The public has until February 29, 2016, to submit comments. The proposed rules amend existing regulations to…
Visa Bulletin Trends Regarding EB Visas for India and China
In January, 2016, the Department of State’s Chief of Visa Control and Reporting Charles Oppenheim responded to questions regarding trends and projections for employment based visa number availability for EB-2s and EB-3s for India and China. In brief, here is…
New USCIS Rule to Benefit Certain High Skilled Nonimmigrants and Immigrants
On January 15, 2016, USCIS published a new rule affecting H-1B1 and E-3 nonimmigrants, as well as certain EB-1 immigrants. The rule harmonizes the regulations with the implementing statute so that both state that H-1B1 and E-3 nonimmigrant workers are…
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