Former INS Attorney Carl Shusterman has been writing an immigration blog on a regular basis since 1996.
For employers who are subject to the H-1B numerical cap, the filing season ended on April 5, both lotteries are over and many receipt notices have been issued. What’s next will be a virtual tsunami of thousands of Requests for Evidence (RFEs), Notices of Intent to Deny (NOIDs) and H-1B Petition Denials. If we […]
The U.S. Department of State issues the Visa Bulletin on a monthly basis. The Visa Bulletin lets you estimate how long it will take for you to get a green card. Where there is no backlog, the State Department lists the category as “current”. This is true for most of the worldwide employment-based categories. You […]
It’s been a long time coming, but Israeli investors will finally be able to obtain E-2 Treaty Investor visas to start businesses in the U.S. starting on May 1, 2019. E-2 Investor Visas for Israelis The E-2 Investor Treaty between the U.S. and Israel was signed by President Obama back in 2012. However, for the […]
The Fairness for High-Skilled Immigrants Act of 2019 (H.R. 1044) would eliminate per-country quotas for employment-based immigration and more than double per-country quotas for family-based immigration. While per-country quotas are unfair and counter-productive, if they were simply and swiftly eliminated without doing more, a new host of problems would arise. Why Getting […]
On January 31, 2019, the USCIS issued a regulation regarding the cap-subject H-1B visa lottery process. In the 30-day comment period which ended on January 2, the agency received over 800 comments about the proposed regulations. The USCIS dismissed critical comments including those which stated that the portion of the regulation which reverses the order […]
Last week, retired Immigration Judge Nathan “Nate” Gordon passed away. At his funeral, dozens of immigration attorneys, judges and others shared their stories of this wonderful man. Judge Gordon changed many people’s lives in a very positive way. I have a lot of stories about Judge Gordon. Let me share one of them with you. […]
On December 15, 2018, Cancer Nurse Maria Mendoza Sanchez returned to the US after being separated from her 4 children in the US for over a year. Her story speaks volumes about our misguided immigration policies and how they continue to wreck havoc on immigrant families. Maria first arrived in the US from Mexico over […]
On December 3, the USCIS proposed a rule which would eliminate the current requirement that employers file cap-subject H-1B petitions during the first week of April. New Online Registration System Instead, should the regulation become effective in 2019, employers will be given a 15-day period at least 2 weeks prior to April 1 to […]
The USCIS announced that for the month of January 2019, applicants for adjustment of status in both the employment-based and the family-based categories may file their I-485 applications according to the Filing Date Charts. This means that you may file your I-485 before your priority date is current, a big plus for you and your […]
On October 6, 2014, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) launched the myE-verify online platform to combat identity fraud and increase the accuracy of records within the E-Verify program. MyE-Verify is a free online service that allows employees to verify their eligibility to work in the United States prior to applying for employment and to […]
