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Remote Work Verification Allowed for New Hires Under DHS Rule

Employers will get a permanent option for verifying employment eligibility remotely beginning Aug. 1 under new Homeland Security Department regulat...

Success Story: EB-1a approved in two weeks

Attorney Mika B. Kozar filed an EB-1 Extraordinary Ability Immigrant Petition for one of the most prominent, accomplished, and forward thinking exp...

Success Story: H-4 EAD Litigation

Attorney Mika B. Kozar, filed a lawsuit for a bank employee seeking a D.C. federal court to compel U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services to add...

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19Jun, 2020

New Executive Order banning the entry of certain non-immigrants delayed as the President’s Cabinet Members and Top advisors could not reach a consensus.

  The Trump administration is weighing a significant expansion of current visa restrictions for foreign workers, widening the scope to include...

18Jun, 2020

Supreme Court blocks Trump from ending DACA

The Supreme Court on Thursday blocked the Trump administration’s attempt to end Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, an Obama-era program ...

10Jun, 2020

White House prepares new immigration limits, using coronavirus as cover

The Trump administration is preparing to roll out another set of restrictions on legal immigration, citing the impact of the coronavirus pandemic, ...

04May, 2020

Over 200,000 H-1B visa workers could lose legal status by June Concerns arise about “a catastrophe at a human level and an economic level” if visa issues aren’t addressed.

Manasi Vasavada has less than three weeks left before she loses her legal right to be in the country. The dental practice in Passaic County, New Je...

04May, 2020

Class Action Lawsuit Seeks to Challenge USCIS’ Unlawful Denial of H-1B Petitions Filed by American Businesses

The American Immigration Council, the American Immigration Lawyers Association, and the law firms Van Der Hout, LLP, Joseph & Hall P.C., and Ku...

28Aug, 2018

USCIS Extends and Expands Suspension of Premium Processing for H-1B Petitions

USCIS has just announced that they are now extending the suspension of CAP subject H-1B petitions all the way until February 19, 2019.

14May, 2018

Controversial USCIS Memo Draws Major H-1B Lawsuit

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) released a controversial memo designed to make it difficult (some say “impossible”) for professio...

05Apr, 2018

Jeff Sessions Wants to Impose Quotas on Immigration Judges.

USCIS has just announced that they are now extending the suspension of CAP subject H-1B petitions all the way until February 19, 2019.

29Mar, 2018

How Trump is quietly rewriting US immigration policy

USCIS has just announced that they are now extending the suspension of CAP subject H-1B petitions all the way until February 19, 2019.

23Feb, 2018

America No Longer A ‘Nation Of Immigrants,’ USCIS Says

USCIS has just announced that they are now extending the suspension of CAP subject H-1B petitions all the way until February 19, 2019.

20Feb, 2018

Philadelphia jury convicts phony attorney

USCIS has just announced that they are now extending the suspension of CAP subject H-1B petitions all the way until February 19, 2019.

14Feb, 2018

USCIS Expands Credit Card Payment Option for Fees

WASHINGTON – U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced today that it will now accept credit card payments for filing most o...

08Feb, 2018

USCIS Will Email Notifications to H-2A Petitioners, Use Pre-Paid Mailers to Send Requests for Evidence

Beginning today, Jan. 22, 2018, USCIS will email notifications of receipt and approval to H-2A (temporary agricultural worker) petitioners who file...

08Feb, 2018

USCIS Launches Naturalization and Citizenship Certificate Redesign Pilot

On Jan. 22, 2018, four USCIS field offices and one service center will participate in a 10-day pilot to issue redesigned citizenship and naturaliza...

08Feb, 2018

Processing Change for Certain Form I-730 Petitions

On January 12, 2018, USCIS changed the processing location for certain Form I-730, Refugee/Asylee Relative Petition, filings. Previously the Servic...

31Jan, 2018

USCIS Announces Countries Eligible for the H-2A and H-2B Visa Programs

USCIS and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), in consultation with the Department of State, have published the list of countries whose natio...

30Jan, 2018

Texas Service Center to Begin Processing Form I-129 for L Visas

On February 12, 2018, the Texas Service Center (TSC) will begin processing certain Form I-129, Petition for a Nonimmigrant Worker petitions for L n...

10Jan, 2018

USCIS partners with Justice Department and Secures First Denaturalization As a Result of Operation Janus

USCIS partners with Justice Department and Secures First Denaturalization As a Result of Operation Janus Release Date: Jan. 10, 2018 On January 5, ...