When the USCIS begins accepting applications for H-1B visas on April 1, it will do so under new rules that bring significant changes to the H-1B lottery process. Specifically, changes to the order in which the H-1B lottery selection is […]
In October 2017, then-Deputy Director of Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Tom Homan publicly announced the agency’s aim to increase workplace investigations “by four or five times” over concerns that employment of undocumented workers makes the United States a “magnet” for […]
On December 3, 2018, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) issued a proposed rule which, if finalized after notice and comment, would significantly change the H-1B lottery process. These proposed changes further implement the 2017 Buy American Hire American […]
On Tuesday, August 28, USCIS announced a broader suspension of premium processing for H-1B petitions filed by employers. This alert describes this suspension and its significant implications, particularly in light of two other recent policy changes: A new Request for […]
In September 2017, Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced that the Trump administration would terminate the DACA program, which provides protection from removal and work authorization to nearly 700,000 young people who have been unlawfully present in the U.S. since a […]
In response to last week’s nationwide injunction entered by Judge William Alsup of the Federal District Court in San Francisco, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced on Saturday that it has resumed acceptance of renewal requests for Deferred Action […]
Over the last two days, the media has been reporting that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is considering aggressive new measures that would potentially reduce or eliminate certain H-1B extensions available under the American Competitiveness in the Twenty-First Century […]
H-1B premium processing restoration: After temporarily suspending premium processing on all H-1B petitions in early April 2017, USCIS has incrementally restored this benefit over the last 6 months to various application categories. On October 3, 2017, the agency announced that […]
