Employers have just a few more weeks to file petitions for foreign nationals selected in the FY 2024 H-1B cap lottery. USCIS must receive all cap petitions by June 30, 2023. It is not yet known whether USCIS will conduct…
Next month, USCIS will accept employment-based adjustment of status applications from foreign nationals with a priority date that is earlier than the Final Action Dates listed in the State Department’s July 2023 Visa Bulletin. Employment-Based Priority Date Cutoffs for July 2023 To…
Beginning June 1, all online PERM labor certification applications must be submitted through the Department of Labor’s Foreign Labor Application Gateway (FLAG) system, using a new version of the Form ETA 9089, Application for Permanent Employment Certification. PERM applications submitted…
If you are a foreign national planning to travel internationally this summer, make sure that you have all the necessary documents, including a passport with sufficient remaining validity, a valid U.S. visa in the appropriate classification, and advance permission to…
Beginning July 1, 2023, a new Florida law will require employers with 25 or more employees in Florida to use E-Verify to check the employment eligibility of all new hires, and will impose state civil and criminal penalties on employers…
As of April 30, 2023, the Department of Labor (DOL) was conducting analyst review for PERM applications filed in July 2022 or earlier, and processing audited cases with priority dates of April 2022 or earlier. DOL is working on standard…
Next month, USCIS will accept employment-based adjustment of status applications from foreign nationals with a priority date that is earlier than the Final Action Dates listed in the State Department’s June 2023 Visa Bulletin. Employment-Based Priority Date Cutoffs for June 2023 To…
In June, EB-5 India will retrogress by more than one year to April 1, 2017. EB-1 and EB-2 cutoff dates for all countries will remain the same in June. EB-3 cutoff dates for all countries and categories will remain the…
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has published a Notice implementing the previously announced two-year extension and expansion of Deferred Enforced Departure (DED) for Hong Kong residents though February 5, 2025, and defining the application process for Employment Authorization Documents…
USCIS received a record 758,994 eligible registrations for the FY 2024 H-1B cap season – a 60% increase over last year’s eligible registration pool. The agency selected 110,791 beneficiaries to reach the H-1B quota of 85,000, for an overall selection…