According to the San Diego Union Tribune, San Diego’s small businesses are heading to bankruptcy court at a higher rate than last year, and the city is among the Top 10 metropolitan areas in the country based on the number of filings. The number of small businesses filing for bankruptcy…
The Obama administration’s challenge to the controversial Arizona immigration law goes before a federal judge Thursday. The Justice Department’s lawsuit, seeking to stop the law from going into effect, is one of two challenges scheduled for a hearing Thursday. The first challenge by a group of more than 100 individuals…
Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and Department of Defense (DOD) today announced that National Guard deployments to the Southwest border will begin on Aug. 1 as part of the administration’s unprecedented efforts to combat the transnational criminal organizations that smuggle weapons, cash and people across our Southwest border. The President…
The H-2B non-agricultural temporary worker program allows U.S. employers to bring foreign nationals to the United States to fill temporary non-agricultural jobs. As of 07/16/10, USCIS receipted 30,154 petitions, toward the 47,000 beneficiaries target for the second half of the fiscal year. This count includes 28,539 approved and 1,615 pending…
U.S. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano today traveled to Laredo, Texas to announce more than $47 million in fiscal year 2010 Operation Stonegarden grants for the Southwest border states. She also met with law enforcement leaders to discuss the Department’s efforts to support state, local and tribal law…
Here is the current H-1B Cap count of FY 2011: Cap Type – H-1B Regular Cap Cap Amount – 65,000 Cap Eligible Petitions – 24,800 Date of Last Count – 7/9/2010 Cap Type – H-1B Master’s Exemption Cap Amount – 20,000 Cap Eligible Petitions – 10,600 Date of Last Count…
U.S. Department of State has released the new visa bulletin for August 2010 on July 12, 2010. Here is the crux: EB-1 category is current for both Chinese and Indian nationals. EB-2 category, cut-off dates moved forward more than three months for Chinese nationals (from November 22, 2005 to March…
A great update from AILA to our anxious EB3 applicants and blog readers. Many I-140 denials came out of the Service Centers in the past few months. These denials resulted when applicants failed to properly distinguish the required qualifications between professionals and skilled workers on the new Form I-140 which…
The U.S. Department of Labor launched an online registry allowing the public to retrieve information about temporary agricultural jobs that fall under the H-2A program. The new tool was developed in compliance with regulations implemented by the department on March 15. The H-2A job registry provides a single, easily searched…
Temporary Protected Status and Expired Employment Authorization Documents One must accept a Temporary Protected Status (TPS) beneficiary’s expired Employment Authorization Document (EAD) if DHS has automatically extended its validity in a Federal Register notice. Automatically extended EADs are listed on the USCIS web site. EADs issued to TPS beneficiaries will…