The Administrative Appeals Office (AAO) recently dismissed the appeal of a petition for a Special Immigrant Religious Worker, finding that the beneficiary could not demonstrate that she had two years of paid employment prior to filing the petition. The AAO denied the petition for employment...
The Administrative Appeals Office (AAO), in a non-precedent case, upheld the denial of an I-140 petition for the multinational executive / manager of a restaurant, noting that a recitation of the beneficiary's vague and broadly-cast job responsibilities was insufficient to establish that she would be...
The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) recently issued an announcement (PDF 40.6KB) that extends the suspension of premium processing services for religious worker (R-1) petitions for another six months, until July 8, 2008. A previous six-month suspension of such premium processing services was announced...
We receive many questions that come into the Murthy Law Firm from visitors to our website and readers of our bulletin, as well as our clients and others who know us by reputation. The issuance of a December 5, 2006 USCIS memo affecting persons in...
The USCIS reissued a May 12, 2005 memo on AC21 I-485 and H1B matters. The memo bears a December 27, 2005 date. This latest memo is identical to the original, presumably only with one clarification. The earlier memo was reported to our readers when it...
The U.S. Department of State (DOS) issued a clarification regarding employees entering the U.S. under blanket L-1 (intracompany transferee) petitions. The L-1 is appropriate for a multinational company with at least one office in the U.S. and one abroad, for which the U.S. operation temporarily...
The USCIS released a memorandum on May 12, 2005 addressing a number of significant issues on the American Competitiveness in the Twenty-First Century Law of 2000 (AC21). The memo contained some favorable procedural specifications regarding adjudication of I-140 petitions in AC21 cases. This article focuses...
The PERM regulation, which regular MurthyDotCom and MurthyBulletin readers are aware goes into effect on March 28, 2005, retains many of the concepts and provisions from the prior labor certification regulations. Included in this carry-over from current provisions are Schedule A occupations, including Physical Therapists...
President George W. Bush signed the Basic Pilot Extension and Expansion Act of 2003 (Public Law No. 108-156), into law on December 3, 2003. This new law extends and expands several important immigration programs through 2008. These programs were first introduced under the Illegal Immigration...
