In early April, the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced a new rule concerning a previous policy. This rule would maintain the current extension for specific employment authorization documents (EADs) from the traditional 180-day...
USCIS Measures Reduces Number of Multiple H-1B Registrations
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has recently released data for the most recent period. According to the USCIS, this period showed that multiple registrations for workers...
USCIS Announced H-2B Cap Reached for Early Second Half of 2024 Fiscal Year
The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) recently announced that it received enough petitions to reach the H-2B supplemental visa cap. Interested parties could...
USCIS Posts Federal Register Notice for Palestinians Under DED
The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) recently posted a Federal Register notice creating procedures governing Employment Authorization Documents (EADs) for Palestinians...
USCIS Increases Automatic Extension of Many Employment Authorization Documents to 540 Days
The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) recently announced a temporary final rule to extend the automatic extension period for many work permit...
USCIS Reaches H-2B Visa Cap for Second Half of FY2024
According to U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), the agency has received enough petitions from employers to reach the cap for the latter half of the 2024 fiscal year. As such,...
USCIS to Accelerate EAD Process for Refugees
The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) recently announced a new process for providing eligible refugees with work permits. The USCIS intends to streamline the program with this process....
USCIS Organizational Accounts for H-1B Registrations Now Online
The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) recently introduced new organizational accounts in time for the fiscal year 2025 H-1B cap season. According to the USCIS, these...
USCIS Premium Processing Fee Increase In Effect
As of February 26, 2024, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has increased its fees for Premium Processing services. These increases require those filing to account for these increased...
Error Causes E-Verify System To Display Incorrect Photos
Recently, a business had an issue with E-Verify in which the photo-matching tool did not work correctly. The photos that E-Verify transmitted did not match those on employees’ documents....