Our Blog readers often inquire regarding visa wait times and priority dates. This article will answer the top three frequent asked questions by previous clients, which are “What is the visa waiting list?”, “Why there is a preference category?” and “What is the current cut-off date for my visa category…
What a great speech tonight at the State of the Union Address. The president continued his push for Congress to act on politically volatile issues such as immigration reform. He said: Our economy is stronger when we harness the talents and ingenuity of striving, hopeful immigrants. And right now, leaders…
Many immigrants have different skills from the native-born population, and complement the skills of the U.S. labor force. Immigrants make the economy more efficient by reducing bottlenecks caused by labor shortages, both in the high-skill and low-skill area. That’s because the educational backgrounds of immigrants and native-born Americans are different.…
My office received a few concerned calls from family members of Aristotle University Students. The University is in a center of a heated media investigation into the legitimacy of this Institution to provide education and issue student visas. Questions have been raised by students for some time about this school.…
After the November 2012 presidential election in the United States, lawmakers from both political parties have shown interest in making changes to U.S. immigration laws and started taking action. Best Chance In Many Years for Immigration Overhaul Democratic President Barack Obama campaigned on immigration reform. Democrats in the U.S. Congress…
Most lawyers that are versed in the H1B visa process, are getting busier and busier these days. As we are nearing the April 1, 2013 filing deadline for the H1B visa. Many speculations out there as to when will the Cap be reached this year. The economy is doing OK,…
Pressing to move quickly to rewrite the nation’s immigration laws, Democratic leaders began setting a strategy to advance legislation as the White House worked to rally business support. Returning to a tactic used in last year’s fiscal fight, administration officials held a conference call with executives of some of the…
Great news today, very important. Senators Orrin Hatch of Utah, Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota, Marco Rubio of Florida and Chris Coons of Delaware have introduced the Immigration Innovation ( I Squared) Act of 2013 which aims to increase the H-1B quota, enhance the portability of existing H-1Bs, increase the number…
Today, President Obama called for common sense, comprehensive immigration reform, saying unequivocally that now is the time for action. He noted that most Americans agree that it is time to “fix the system that has been broken for way too long” and that immigration reform will strengthen our economy and…
Exciting news to many of our readers. Undocumented immigrants would be able to seek legal status without first going home under a compromise framework presented today by a bipartisan group of senators. Here is the framework of a bipartisan group of senators’ immigration reform plan they say will secure the…