Kathy Rush joined the Murthy Law Firm in 2006, and only a short time later, took up her current role as Corporate Services Manager. "My new job was created when USCIS changed the green card rules," Kathy says. She still remembers the exact date the...
October 1, 2009 marks the start of fiscal year 2010 (FY10). Thus, eligible diversity visa lottery winners for 2010 (DV-2010) can move forward with their permanent resident (or "green card") cases. The lottery program allocates 50,000 visa numbers for immigrant visas each year to certain...
The New York State Attorney General's Office announced the shutting down of three New York businesses that had been providing fraudulent immigration legal services. Details can be found in an August 20, 2009 press release. This is reported to MurthyDotCom and MurthyBulletin readers to raise...
When Kristi Kincaid came to work at the Murthy Law Firm (MLF) in 2004, she was 22, and began her career in a very public role, as the friendly voice on the other end of the phone, handling client & potential business calls every day....
The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) reinstated premium processing for Nonimmigrant Religious Workers (R-1s), effective July 20, 2009. The premium, expedited processing option was suspended since November 28, 2006, based on concerns of fraud. The premium processing service for R-1 petitions will be limited...
The U.S. Department of State (DOS) has a new online feature for tracking the status of diversity lottery (DV) applications. This allows individuals who applied for the DV lottery for fiscal year (FY) 2010 to check the status of those applications online. This will allow...
An International Medical Graduate (IMG) educated in a country such as India faces an immigration hurdle because, unlike in the United States, s/he does not have to hold a bachelor's degree as a prerequisite to admission to medical school. The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services...
In the more than 25 years that the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year awards have honored entrepreneurial excellence in business, more than 10,000 outstanding entrepreneurs have been honored for their vision, innovation, courage, and leadership in building and growing successful businesses - businesses...
We at the Murthy Law Firm have received some recent questions about proposed legislative changes to the H1B and L-1 programs. Specifically, there are concerns regarding legislation that was introduced on April 23, 2009 by U.S. Senators Richard Durbin (D-IL) and Charles Grassley (R-IA). Known...
The Murthy Law Firm is proud to share an interesting recent success story involving long-delayed I-485 applications. The I-485 applications in this case were delayed due in part to confusion involving a fugitive foreign national. The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) mistakenly assigned the...
