DHS has announced that it will make available an additional 64,716 H-2B visas in Fiscal Year 2023, nearly doubling the number of H-2B visas that would otherwise be available this fiscal year. Of the additional visas, 20,000 will be reserved…
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has announced that until further notice, employers should continue using the Form I-9, Employment Eligibility Verification, after its expiration date of October 31, 2022. According to the agency, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) will publish a…
Due to the ongoing COVID-19 emergency, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is extending its flexible I-9 document inspection policy through July 31, 2023. Eligible employers will continue to be permitted to review I-9 identity and employment authorization documents without conducting…
In November, USCIS will continue to accept adjustment of status applications based on the monthly Visa Bulletin’s Dates for Filing Chart, rather than the Final Action Dates Chart. The Dates for Filing and Final Action Dates for EB-1, EB-2, and…
On October 5, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit upheld a lower court’s finding that the Department of Homeland Security’s 2012 memorandum establishing the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program is substantively and procedurally unlawful, but the…
A stopgap spending measure passed by Congress will fund the U.S. government – including E-Verify and the Conrad 30 program – through December 16, 2022, as Congress considers federal budget legislation to fund the government for the full FY 2023.…
Effective September 26, 2022, USCIS has increased the automatic extension granted to green card renewal applicants to 24 months, up from an automatic extension of 12 months under the prior policy. Lawful permanent residents who properly file a Form I-90…
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…
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…