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01 Mar 2013

AILA Insights into Visa Bulletin CutOff Dates

The American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA) recently released a summary of information garnered in discussions with Charles Oppenheim, Chief, Immigrant Visa Control and Reporting Division, U.S. Department of State (DOS). The information provides insights that help to explain the cutoff dates in the employment-based (EB)...

15:36 / AOS/CP / EB1 Category / EB2 PERM Labor / EB3 PERM Labor / EB5 Investor / Employment Based / For Individuals / NewsBrief / Visa Bulletin
02 Oct 2012

Key Immigration Programs Extended

The President has signed legislation extending the expiration or "sunset" dates of four important immigration programs. These programs are: the EB5 (investor) Regional Center Program; the E-Verify employment verification program; the EB-4 Religious Worker (non-minister) Program; and the Conrad State 30 physician J-1 waiver program....

16:25 / EB4 Special Immigrants / EB5 Investor / Employment Based / For Employers / Foreign Medical Graduates / Medical / NewsBrief
16 Oct 2009

Conrad 30, Religious Worker & EB5 Program Temporary Extensions

President Obama signed a continuing resolution on October 1, 2009, temporarily extending funding for the Conrad 30 program for physicians, the non-minister immigrant religious worker category and EB5 immigrant investor pilot programs until October 31, 2009.Regular readers of MurthyDotCom may recall that these programs were...

15:51 / EB4 Special Immigrants / EB5 Investor / For Employers / For Individuals / J-1 Exchange / Legislation / NewsBrief / Other Work Statuses / Physicians
28 Aug 2009

New York Shuts Down Immigration Services Companies for UPL

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...

16:40 / AOS/CP / Citizen / EB2 National Interest Waiver / EB5 Investor / Employment Based / For Employers / For Individuals / Green Card Lottery / NewsBrief / PERM Labor / Student / Travel / Visitor
14 Mar 2008

EB5 Investor Must Satisfy All Legal Requirements

With the backlog in processing employment-based second and third preference cases (EB2 and EB3, respectively), particularly for nationals of India and China, other options like the employment-based first preference (EB1), employment-based fourth preference (EB4) and the employment-based fifth preference (EB5), all become more important for...

15:59 / EB5 Investor / For Employers / NewsBrief