Answer If the USCIS reviews a case, it generally does not return any government filing fees, (including fraud prevention fee, etc). The only time that the USCIS will return the entire package and all the filing fees is if the case is not selected under the...
Answer Unless the person has filed an I-485 adjustment of status application that has been pending for a minimum of 180 days, a new employer would typically need to file its own PERM and I-140 cases on behalf of the foreign national. The one advantage is...
Over the past couple of weeks, we at the Murthy Law Firm have received scores of inquiries regarding President Trump's January 27, 2017 executive order that instituted a travel ban on foreign nationals from seven predominantly Muslim countries (Iran, Iraq, Syria, Yemen, Sudan, Libya, and...
Answer Yes, a PERM case can generally be filed in parallel with an H1B petition (or even before an H1B has been filed. (06.Feb.2017)In frequent sessions of our Chat, Sheela Murthy and other senior attorneys provide guidance that clarifies the law in real time. For details...
Answer We have received confirmation from the Department of State that the drop box program is still in place and being used in Chennai (and elsewhere). If the program is changed in the future there will likely be an announcement made on ustraveldocs.com. And, of course,...
Answer Your question appears to be in reference to one of several immigration-related bills that are pending. These are all merely proposed bills. There are thousands of bills proposed in Congress each year, and only a relatively small number are ever signed into law. If any...
The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has confirmed that it is continuing to adjudicate petitions and applications filed on behalf of foreign nationals from the seven "travel ban" countries. The full statement from the USCIS reads as follows: USCIS continues to adjudicate applications and petitions...
Late on Friday, February 3, 2017, a federal judge ordered a temporary halt nationwide to the travel ban that had applied to nationals of Iran, Iraq, Libya, Syria, Somalia, Sudan, and Yemen. This travel ban, which was instituted by President Trump via executive order, had...
The U.S. Department of State (DOS) advised representatives of the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA) that there are no plans to add any more countries to the travel ban list. The travel ban, instituted on January 27, 2017 by executive order, presently applies to Iran,...
The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has released a fact sheet related to the automatic extension of certain employment authorization documents (EADs) pursuant to the recently implemented regulation on high-skilled workers. The fact sheet clarifies, "Employees with a timely filed EAD application that is...
