January 15, 2019

Following the Supreme Court’s decision in Pereira v. Sessions, 138 S. Ct. 2105 (2018) (holding that a putative notice to appear that fails to designate the specific time or place of …

January 11, 2019

As the Federal government shutdown nears the end of its third week, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services’ offices continue to be open and to process applications for immigration benefits such …

December 4, 2018

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) recently issued a new proposed regulation to change the way it selects which H-1B cap-subject petitions it will accept in years when there are …

November 30, 2018

Asylum applications received by the Executive Office of Immigration Review have more than tripled since 2014 and currently, there are more than 350,000 cases in immigration proceedings with an asylum …

November 28, 2018

Thousands of Salvadorans, Sudanese, Haitians and Nicaraguans, whom the Trump administration has been eager to remove from the United States, have been given a reprieve by a federal court. For …

January 11, 2018

According to recent media reports USCIS has now backed off its proposal to change the H-1B program.  It now claims it is no longer considering plans to restrict H-1B workers …

January 9, 2018

H-1B workers have long benefitted from provisions in the American Competitiveness in the 21st Century Act (also known as the AC21 Act) allowing them to seek extensions of their H-1B …

November 3, 2017

After a false start to this year’s Diversity Visa Lottery Program earlier this month, the State Department announced a new filing period that started October 18th and will end on …