There's a lot of talk on Capitol Hill, just now, about building an immigration system that will enhance our economic competitiveness. Now our neighbors to the north have directed a well-timed slap shot into the midst of all this Congressional jawboning: on April 1st, Canada...
Foreign students have many questions about their status and related issues. The number of questions received by the Murthy Law Firm from F-1 students has been growing over the past few years. In an effort to assist these students, MurthyDotCom answers a frequently asked question...
Deadline Sunday, April 14th Academics and other public intellectuals play a vital role in the life of our democracy: challenging our assumptions, speaking truth to power, and doing the difficult work of defining problems and refining potential solutions. Scholars leaven our political discourse with reasoned argument...
Immediately after the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced the need for a random lottery of H1B cap-subject filings, the Murthy Law Firm began receiving questions asking when H1B filers would know if their cases were selected for processing. Following is an explanation of...
When the Senate's Gang of Eight released its bipartisan framework for comprehensive immigration reform, in late January 2013, it pledged to improve our legal immigration system and attract the world's best and brightest to our shores. [See Bipartisan Framework for Comprehensive Immigration Reform from Senators...
MurthyDotCom is very pleased to be a 2013 Webby Honoree. Since 1994, the Murthy Law Firm (then the Law Office of Sheela Murthy) has striven to provide the immigrant and business communities with reliable information, written in language intended for those who are NOT lawyers...
As predicted by many, including the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), the fiscal year 2014 (FY14) H1B cap limit was exceeded during the first five business days in April 2013. The USCIS has confirmed in a series of announcements that 124,000 H1B cap-subject filings...
On April 7, 2013, the USCIS announced that approximately 124,000 cap-subject H1B petitions were received during the first week of April. This includes cases filed under both the regular 65,000 H1B cap limit and those requesting the 20,000 advanced-degree cap exemptions (Masters' Cap).The USCIS held...
At the Murthy Law Firm, service to others is deeply embedded in the firm's DNA. It's part of who we are, and our clients have come to expect this: lawyers and staff with a sense of mission, pulling together to help them achieve their American...
