USCIS Proposes Newly Updated Form I-9
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has published a proposal for a newly updated version of the Form I-9 Employment Eligibility Verification in the Federal Register. USCIS is inviting the public...
Measures USCIS Is Taking to Reduce Processing Times
The current administration has proposed an increase in funding for the USCIS, and now the USCIS is declaring that it will be taking steps to achieve faster processing times.
The USCIS is planning...
USCIS Announces Completion of H-1B Lottery Selection Process
The USCIS recently disclosed that the annual limit for the 2023 Fiscal Year (FY) H-1B cap was met, and, therefore, the lottery selection process is complete for FY 2023. The USCIS has...
USCIS Will No Longer Issue EAD Cards in Combination With APD Travel Travel Documents
The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has begun to give priority to pending requests for employment authorization (Form I-765) made by adjustment...
USCIS Returning to Offices Starting June 4th
United States Citizenship and Immigration Services has announced that certain domestic offices will reopen and resume non-emergency public services starting June 4th, 2022. This will allow petitioners...
USCIS Issues Updated Employment Authorization Guidance for E and L Nonimmigrant Spouses
United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has provided updated guidance regarding the use of I-94 for employment authorization and what E and...
USCIS Makes Changes to Prevent Multiple H-1B Registrations
Sometimes easier isn’t better, according to critics of USCIS’s electronic registration system. These critics have complained that the system makes registrations so simple and...
USCIS Making Progress Towards Electronic Processing
The USCIS has been stating its intent to modernize by changing to an electronic filing system for almost twenty years. The system it had intended to put in place was ELIS, the Electronic Immigration...
USCIS Provides New Guidance for O-1 Visa Eligibility and Adjudication
With intense competition for many employment-based visas as well as continuing backlogs and processing delays, many employers have turned to alternatives, including the O-1 visa...
USCIS Announces Purge of Older E-Verify Records
Every year United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) purges records that are more than ten years old from the E-Verify system, and that time has come once again. The USCIS has announced...