The U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear appeals filed by towns in Texas and Pennsylvania, regarding their attempts to locally enforce certain U.S. immigration laws. This means that the earlier decisions by federal appellate courts striking down the towns' laws will stand. Local Efforts to Regulate...
Murthy Law Firm attorneys are in demand as guest speakers at professional conferences and continuing-education seminars. Why? Because they have achieved a high level of legal scholarship and technical know-how in the course of their law practice. A recent case in point: two of the...
The U.S. Department of State (DOS) has issued the April 2014 Visa Bulletin. As expected, there was little in the way of movement in this month's visa bulletin. Family-Based, Second Preference "A" (FB2A) The FB2A category applies to spouses and (unmarried, minor) children of U.S. lawful permanent...
Silicon Valley is world famous for its culture of innovation, for a hothouse atmosphere where new ideas can grow - seemingly overnight - into successful companies, even entirely new industries. It can't hurt that investors often are tripping over each other to pour money into...
Answer No. Unfortunately, even if you had two majors, one of which was designated as a STEM degree, but the initial OPT was based on a non-STEM degree, you would still not be eligible for the STEM extension. According to SEVP policy guidance, "[i]f a student...
To provide clarity on an important issue regarding recruitment in PERM labor certification (LC) cases, the frequently asked questions section of the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL)'s Office of Foreign Labor Certification (OFLC) was recently updated. In the frequently asked questions (FAQs), under the Recruitment Report...
Pulitzer Prize-winning historian, Doris Kearns Goodwin, was the latest featured speaker in Stevenson University's Baltimore Speakers Series, held February 18th at the Meyerhoff Symphony Hall. Murthy Law Firm founder and president - and fellow Harvard alumna - Sheela Murthy was there, front and center, for...
The U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has begun operating a new preclearance facility at Abu Dhabi International Airport, making it the 16th such facility to be established around the world. The preclearance process is intended to protect U.S. security interests by allowing the CBP...
Not everyone in the GOP was happy to hear House Speaker Boehner's announcement, some weeks ago, that immigration reform was essentially off the table in 2014, ostensibly because many in his caucus did not trust the President to implement whatever reforms Congress ultimately passes. Conservative...
Though U.S. immigration officials have not quite rolled up the welcome mat for high-tech workers from overseas, in recent years, it's become progressively more difficult for certain types of nonimmigrant workers to get their visas approved. The USCIS has been taking a harder line in...
