The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced on June 15, 2012 that the United States will no longer seek to remove (deport) certain individuals who were brought to the U.S. while they were under age sixteen. These individuals will be eligible for deferred action (delaying...
The H1B quota for fiscal year (FY) 2013 was reached on Monday, June 11, 2012. The advanced-degree cap was reached a few days earlier, on June 7, 2012. The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) made an announcement regarding both cap limits on June 12,...
Six attorneys from the Murthy Law Firm - including founder and president, Sheela Murthy - will attend the 2012 conference of the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA), being held this week in Nashville, Tennessee. AILA is the leading professional organization for immigration lawyers, and its...
Murthy Law Firm founder and president, Sheela Murthy, was among the many philanthropists and immigrant rights advocates who turned out for FIRN's 10th Annual American Success Awards on June 5th. Murthy was joined by MLF team members Aron Finkelstein, Dana Delott, and Harriet Bessel. The...
Last weekend, the MurthyNAYAK Foundation, the philanthropic heart of the Murthy Law Firm, hosted a delegation of educators from one of our favorite projects based in Bangalore, India. The Agastya International Foundation is a nongovernmental organization (NGO) whose mission is to spark creativity in the...
The USCIS announced that the H1B cap for Fiscal Year 2013 (FY13) was reached on June 11, 2012. Confirmation was issued on June 12, 2012, which also advised for the first time that the advanced-degree cap exemption limit was met on June 7, 2012.Cap-subject cases...
The U.S. Department of State has released the July 2012 Visa Bulletin. For the first time in many years, the employment-based, second preference (EB2) category contains a cutoff date for the rest of the world, Mexico, and the Philippines. This cutoff date is January 1,...
The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) recently expanded the list of approved degree programs that are eligible for the 17-month Optional Practical Training (OPT) extensions. The ICE announcement is available online. Background: Basics of STEM Extensions In April 2008, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS)...
The pending I-485 inventory charts posted by the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) were recently updated. These charts detail the number of pending employment-based (EB) adjustment-of-status (I-485) cases by EB preference category, country of chargeability, and month and year of the priority date. This...
Murthy Law Firm attorney Kevin Andrews joined a small group of hardy souls to commemorate Memorial Day this year with a 60-mile march from Harper's Ferry, West Virginia to Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia. This was no ordinary hike, but a "ruck march," a military...
