AnswerEmployers are not supposed to file two PERM cases for the same employee at the same time. Filing at the same time means both will be pending with the DOL at the same time. So, simply choosing a different title/category isn't going to help. It...
Answer No, there is not a notification that goes from the USCIS to one's employer when a new company files an H1B case. The H1Bs aren't "transferred," so the approval of the new employer's case doesn't disrupt the current employer's case. There is no communication from...
... The H1B petition was approved, but I continued working on OPT and did not leave the U.S. to apply for the visa. A few months ago, I applied for a STEM extension and the USCIS issued an RFE, saying that my SEVIS record was...
Modern forensics has taught us that each fingerprint is unique. Despite this, their patterns all are made of arches, loops, or whorls. Immigrant stories are something like fingerprints. They are completely individual - each one unique. But there are similarities that run through them. Immigrants...
The Murthy Law Firm has received many inquiries regarding the impact of recently proposed immigration bills that would eliminate the per-country limit for employment-based immigrant visa categories. This per-country limit is one of the primary reasons most beneficiaries born in China and India must endure...
The Murthy Law Firm has received many inquiries regarding the impact of recently proposed immigration bills that would eliminate the per-country limit for employment-based immigrant visa categories. This per-country limit is one of the primary reasons most beneficiaries born in China and India must endure...
The Director of the U.S. Customs and Immigration Services (USCIS), Leon Rodriguez, held a public teleconference this afternoon (22.Jan.2015) to discuss various agency initiatives. The first topic addressed by Director Rodriguez was to provide a brief update on the proposed rules to grant certain H-4...
The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) continues to work on improving the Case Status Online system, which, as the name implies, allows stakeholders to check the status of a case using the internet. The USCIS provided an update on the progress being made to this...
When Hurricane Katrina battered the Gulf Coast in August of 2005, the region's economy came to a catastrophic standstill. Virtually overnight, thousands of residents whose homes were destroyed were forced to relocate, resulting in a precarious labor shortage along the Texas, Mississippi, and Louisiana coastlines....
Each month, Charles Oppenheim, the Chief of the Visa Control and Reporting Division at the U.S. Department of State (DOS), provides visa bulletin insights and explanations. The most notable prediction this month is the expected movement for the employment-based, second preference (EB2) category for India...
