The U.S. Embassy, New Delhi, India recently announced the expansion of the Interview Waiver Program (IWP) for certain visa applicants in India. The expanded program now includes H1B and L-1 visa applicants as well as certain students, provided that they meet specific requirements. Details regarding...
The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) will start accepting H1B cap-subject filings for fiscal year 2014 (FY14) on Monday, April 1, 2013. While it may seem early to start thinking about April 2013, the Murthy Law Firm has already begun accepting and working on H1B cap-subject...
The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has recently started denying some H1B petitions filed under the advanced degree exemption, or "master's cap," due to the nature of the U.S. school from which the individual graduated. This is not a change in the law; rather,...
The U.S. Department of State (DOS) has released the Visa Bulletin for December 2012, and cutoff date movement is consistent with earlier predictions. As expected, the employment-based, second preference (EB2) category remains stagnant for India. The December Visa Bulletin includes predictions for upcoming visa bulletins....
Information has been posted on the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) WebSite for the benefit of those affected by Hurricane Sandy. This guidance addresses concerns including filing delays, interview rescheduling, and emergency need for work authorization. Following is information that may prove helpful to...
Questions have arisen surrounding some recent applications for adjustment of status (I-485) cases filed for derivative (dependent) beneficiaries. The receipt notices issued for some of these cases reflect the date of the I-485 filing in place of the correct priority date. The USCIS has explained...
The audit process is used by the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) to confirm that employers are complying with PERM requirements and that the attestations in PERM labor certifications are correct. Cases are sometimes selected for audit at random. In other cases, the DOL targets...
The United Sates Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) issued a warning on October 22, 2012 advising of a telephone scam intended to victimize foreign nationals. According to the USCIS, scammers posing as USCIS employees have been contacting individuals by telephone and aggressively pushing them to...
As explained in our MurthyDotCom NewsBrief, Murthy Takes Action: Comments to DOL on Proposed LCA (21.Sep.2012), the DOL proposed an overhaul of the labor condition application (LCA) contents on July 9, 2012. Based upon legal restrictions as to LCA content, as well as concerns about...
As readers were advised in our NewsBrief, Visa Bulletin Predictions for EB2 (25.Oct.2012), several Murthy Law Firm attorneys attended a meeting regarding U.S. Department of State (DOS) Visa Bulletin information and predictions for fiscal year (FY) 2013. The meeting was with Charles Oppenheim, the Chief of...
