The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has released interim guidance addressing employer obligations for filing amended petitions for H1B workers who have been moved to new worksites. The guidance sets a deadline of August 19, 2015 for H1B employers to come into compliance with the...
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) are in the initial stages of proposing important regulatory changes affecting employment-based (EB) immigration. The spring 2015 DHS regulatory agenda includes rulemaking that, if implemented, would make certain beneficiaries of...
The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) released a final rule that will now make it possible for dependents of F-1 and M-1 students to study in the United States on a limited basis. Effective May 29, 2015, F-2 and M-2 spouses and children will be...
As expected, a federal court has denied a motion for a preliminary injunction filed in an effort to block the new regulation granting qualifying H-4 spouses the ability to apply for employment authorization documents (EADs). This decision, issued on Sunday, May 24, 2015, does not...
On May 22, 2015, the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) issued a revised Application for Employment Authorization (form I-765). This revision includes the changes needed to accommodate the newly created H-4 EAD category. This category becomes available on May 26, 2015.The revised form reflects...
As expected, the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) issued answers to Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) on May 20, 2015, regarding the newly-created H-4 employment authorization document (EAD) option. The first part of this two-part article summarizes the most straightforward of the issues addressed in...
This afternoon, the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) released filing guidance and answers to a list of frequently asked questions (FAQs) regarding the regulation that will allow certain H-4 spouses to apply for employment authorization documents (EADs). Please note that at the time of this writing,...
Representatives from the Student and Exchange Visitor Program (SEVP) and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) are cautioning foreign national students against falling prey to a new, sophisticated telephone scam. The scammers are targeting unsuspecting F-1 and M-1 students in the Chicago, Illinois area, demanding...
The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced today that, effective May 26th, the agency "…will temporarily suspend premium processing for all H1B Extension of Stay petitions until July 27, 2015." Further, premium processing fees will be refunded for any H1B extension case filed before May...
Charles Oppenheim, Chief of the Visa Control and Reporting Division for the U.S. Department of State (DOS), offers analysis of visa bulletin trends and predictions for the June 2015 Visa Bulletin, as he does each month. This latest information includes the disappointing possibility that the...
