Entrants have from Wednesday, October 5, 2022 at noon EDT until Tuesday, November 8, 2022 at noon EST to register online at the State Department’s official Diversity Visa lottery website. Lottery applications must conform to the State Department’s strict requirements. A closer…
Beginning September 15, 2022, USCIS will accept Form I-907 Premium Processing upgrade requests for pending EB-1 Multinational Executive and Manager Form I-140 petitions that were received on or before January 1, 2022, and pending EB-2 National Interest Waiver (NIW) I-140…
As of August 31, 2022, the Department of Labor (DOL) was conducting analyst review for PERM applications filed in January 2022 or earlier, and processing audited cases with priority dates of November 2021 or earlier. DOL is working on standard…
The Department of Homeland Security’s new public charge final rule takes effect on December 23, 2022. It largely codifies a longstanding policy on the public charge ground of inadmissibility. The rule would deem a foreign national ineligible to receive a…
USCIS has announced that it will accept employment-based adjustment of status applications with priority dates that are earlier than the Dates for Filing listed in the Department of State’s October Visa Bulletin. The EB-2 India Date for Filing will retrogress…
The final regulation is intended to reinstate the DACA program largely unchanged in the wake of its invalidation by a federal court last year. The rule is scheduled to be published on August 30 and to take effect on October…
USCIS announced that it has received enough H-1B cap petitions to fill the 85,000 slots available for the coming fiscal year, which begins October 1. In March of this year, USCIS selected 127,600 cap registrations to meet the quota, or…
If the proposed rule becomes final, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) would have ongoing authority to permit alternatives to in-person examination of Form I-9 employment eligibility verification documents at its discretion. The proposal stops short of seeking direct, permanent…
The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) has completed review of a Department of Homeland Security (DHS)/U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) proposed regulation entitled, “Optional Alternative to the Physical Examination Associated With Employment Eligibility Verification (Form I-9).” The proposal has been under…
The EB-5 Final Action date for China Unreserved categories will advance one month to December 22, 2015. The remaining Final Action Dates for employment-based categories will remain unchanged from the previous month. On the Dates for Filing chart, EB-5 China…