The American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA) continues to seek clarification from the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) regarding the need to amend the H1B petition for a worker whose work location has changed. As explained in this MurthyDotCom NewsBrief, expectations are clearly shifting from...
The U.S. Department of State (DOS) Visa Office has issued updated predictions of employment-based (EB) cutoff dates expected in the October 2012 Visa Bulletin. The DOS anticipates that the cutoff date for EB2 India will likely be a 2006 date. This is a revision of...
Sheela Murthy has done it again! With her inclusion in the 2012 edition of Corporate Immigration, the Murthy Law Firm founder and president has been recognized as one of the world's top International Corporate Immigration Lawyers. Murthy Law Firm Managing Attorney, Aron Finkelstein, was likewise...
The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced on August 21, 2012, that for the third straight year it has approved 10,000 U visa petitions, the maximum quota allowed under the law. This clearly demonstrates the importance of this category, available to victims of certain...
As America's economic trend line bends slowly upward, pundits and politicians continue to debate whether this economic policy or that change in the tax code might spur the growth we need to accelerate our progress. This is to be expected in an election year. As...
The U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) recently confirmed that officers have stopped stamping I-20s at airports and other U.S. ports of entry (POEs). This information was first circulated in mid-August 2012 by NAFSA: Association of International Educators (formerly known as the National Association of...
Aware of the mounting anxiety among many of our readers, the Murthy Law Firm recently contacted the U.S. Department of State (DOS) seeking information regarding projections for cutoff dates under the October 2012 Visa Bulletin. The DOS advised that the October Visa Bulletin, which begins...
We often have warned our readers that almost any crime - no matter how trivial it seems - can lead to serious immigration problems, even removal (deportation). [See Beware: Serious Immigration Consequences of Shoplifting, MurthyDotCom, 17.Oct.2011.)The latest cautionary tale comes from the world of baseball. San...
Many different languages are spoken by attorneys and other staff at the Murthy Law Firm. Some of these individuals are bilingual. Some know a few comforting words in several languages. Among the languages spoken here are Telugu, Kannada, Gujarati, Tamil, and Hindi from India, Ga...
Kathy Rush manages the Corporate / Client Services Department at the Murthy Law Firm, a dedicated team that ensures our clients have the best possible experience with our firm. She appreciates the simple things. "You're going to laugh - I love coffee … it's a...
