The Different Categories of Employment-Based Visas
For employers across the country, non-citizen workers make up a valuable and necessary workforce component. To employ these workers, employers rely on various employment-based visas the U.S government...
H-1B Visa Alternatives for F-1 Student Employees
The H-1B lottery for the 2023 fiscal year finished earlier this year, with the USCIS receiving an enormous 483,927 registrations and selecting 127,600. USCIS projects that this will fill the Fiscal...
Extended Deadline for Resolution of Tentative Non-confirmations With the SSA Ends July 15th
The Social Security Administration (SSA) has announced that it will soon end a policy, extending the date employees can attempt to resolve Tentative Non-Confirmations...
USCIS Struggles to Issue the 280,000 Available Green Cards This Year
A record number of employment-based green cards are available this year, and the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) is trying to issue all available visas before...
H-4 Spouses Left Struggling Due to EAD Processing Delays
Many families in the U.S. on H-1B visas are still struggling due to processing delays by the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS). This delay has particularly affected...
Upcoming Regulatory Changes for Employment-Based Immigration
Federal agencies release their regulatory agendas at the start of every fiscal year, which guide their actions for the upcoming period. The U.S. Departments of Homeland Security (DHS),...
Pennsylvania Senate Passes Bill to Increase E-Verify Enforcement for the Construction Industry
Legislation to enforce the construction industry’s use of the federal government’s E-Verify system has passed the Pennsylvania State Senate. This legislation,...
Wasted Employment-based Green Cards Have a Large Effect on Indian Immigrants
Statistics indicate that the United States government did not issue approximately 25% of the employment-based green cards available for the 2021 fiscal year. Instead, the...
Major Coffee Chain Claims Franchisees Violated Settlement Agreement Over Form I-9 Violations
One of the nation’s largest coffee and donut retailers has filed a lawsuit against several of its New Jersey-based franchisees concerning allegations...
Congress Receives Annual Report from Citizenship and Immigrations Services Ombudsman
The Department of Homeland Security’s Office of the Citizenship and Immigration Services Ombudsman (CIS Ombudsman) recently provided its annual report to...