U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) recently announced a joint plan to eliminate the backlog of name checks pending with the FBI. USCIS and the FBI established a series of milestones prioritizing work based on the age of the pending name check. The…
Well the numbers are out, I lost my bet. I predicted 200,000 visa applications to be received. The actual numbers are lower. This reflects the low confidence employers put in this system. U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) today announced a preliminary number of nearly 163,000 H-1B petitions received during…
As we are anxiously waiting for the H1B lottery to start tomorrow, the government providing some relief for those that are waiting to get their visas and for future students graduates about to apply for work permits. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (“DHS”) released today an Interim Final Rule…
Talk about H1B filing nightmare. American Immigration Lawyers Association has received reports that Federal Express forwarded a number of H-1B packages to the service centers without entering the individual package into the tracking system. AILA and USCIS are discussing how to handle the situation, and USCIS is talking to Federal…
The latest from the Border. Mexican nationals who are deported from the United States or leave voluntarily after being stopped are being offered free trips back to their hometowns under a pilot program launched yesterday in Tijuana. The Tijuana program, dubbed Humanitarian Repatriation, will also ensure that returning Mexicans receive…
Our Blog is being read by thousands of Media outlets across the Globe. I was happy to be quoted by ComputerWorld about the recent H1B filing madness. For 40 years, Computerworld has been the leading source of technology news and information for IT influencers worldwide. Computerworld’s award-winning Web site (Computerworld.com),…
Yes, the big day has arrived, March 31, 2008!!! We are very excited (and exhausted), but all our cases are ready to go via FEDEX to the Vermont or Califronia Service Centers dpending on the locations of the employers. We carefully marked all the envelopes with bright markers to indicate…
Yes the pressure is on and we are less than 7 days before the H1B filing date. Our office is open longer hours and dedicated staff members are trying to put together the cases in the most perfect order, according to the tips issued by USCIS The goal is to…
I recently posted an article about what is actually happening at a Marriage based adjustment interview Read here But it seems that from time to time, innocent immigrants may face unethical, criminally motivated immigration agents that take advantage of their position to exploit immigrants. We as lawyers make sure to…
As we are struggling to finish processing our H1B cases and get them ready for the March 31 filing date (look I am working on Saturday night!!!), new bills were introduced that may provide relief from the Cap. Here are the bills: Strengthening United States Technology And Innovation Now Act…