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April 2024 Visa Bulletin – (Finally) Notable Forward Movement in Employment-based Categories

The U.S. State Department has released the April 2024 Visa Bulletin which is the seventh Visa Bulletin for the new fiscal year.  The headline in the upcoming month’s Visa Bulletin is positive forward movement:  notable forward movement in [...]

By |2024-03-14T11:39:32-04:00March 8th, 2024|Articles, I-485, News, News Alert, Visa Bulletin|

April 1, 2024 H-1B Filing Fee Increase Explanation and Breakdown

Many of our clients and readers are aware that the Department of Homeland Security is significantly increasing the USCIS filing fees starting April 1, 2024.    We published a detailed alert for all of the fees (see details); however, for [...]

By |2024-02-13T11:34:16-05:00February 13th, 2024|Articles, Fees, H-1B, News, News Alert|

March 2024 Visa Bulletin – Retrogression in I-485 Filing Eligibility

The U.S. State Department has released the March 2024 Visa Bulletin which is the sixth Visa Bulletin for the new fiscal year.  The headline in the upcoming month’s Visa Bulletin is the anemic forward movement across most employment-based categories together [...]

By |2024-02-12T11:34:56-05:00February 12th, 2024|News|

USCIS Changes H-1B Cap Registration Lottery Selection Process to Be Beneficiary-Centric

In a new final rule USCIS is changing the process it selects H-1B cap registrants during the annual “cap” lottery selection process.    Starting with this year, the new process will be based on “beneficiary-centric” selection which means that [...]

By |2024-02-01T10:13:10-05:00February 1st, 2024|Employers, H-1B, News, News Alert|

USCIS Increases Filing Fees Starting April 1, 2024

The Department of Homeland Security has just released the final rule that significantly changes the USCIS fee schedule, including adding new fees, establishing multiple fees for nonimmigrant worker petitions and increasing the premium processing time limit. The rule and the new fees [...]

By |2024-02-13T11:34:12-05:00January 31st, 2024|Articles, Employers, Fees, H-1B, I-485, News, News Alert|

How to File an H-1B Cap Petition When the Current Degree is Still Underway?

As the H-1B cap filing season is well underway and as the first filing day of March 1st is approaching fast, a common question by H-1B employers or H-1B candidates is whether an H-1B cap petition can (or should) be filed when the foreign national employee is still completing their degree program.   This is very [...]

By |2024-01-25T11:46:25-05:00January 24th, 2024|Articles, F-1, H-1B, News, News Alert|

February 2024 Visa Bulletin – No Notable Employment-based Category Movement

The U.S. State Department has released the February 2024 Visa Bulletin which is the fifth Visa Bulletin for the new fiscal year.  The headline in the upcoming month’s Visa Bulletin is the lack of notable movement among most employment-based categories [...]

By |2024-01-16T17:18:04-05:00January 16th, 2024|News|

What To Do If My I-485 Green Card is Approved (in Error) When My Priority Date is Not Current?

One of the happiest moments for an I-485 Adjustment of Status applicant is the day their employment-based I-485 is approved and their green card is ordered for production in mailing.   However, [...]

By |2024-01-07T15:50:50-05:00January 7th, 2024|AOS, Articles, I-290B, I-485, News, News Alert|

USCIS Increases I-907 Premium Processing Filing Fee Starting February 26, 2024

The Department of Homeland Security has announced an inflation-based increase of the I-907 premium processing filing fee starting February 26, 2024.    The most common $2,500 premium processing filing fee goes up to $2,805 with an average increase of [...]

By |2024-02-22T11:31:50-05:00January 4th, 2024|Articles, Fees, H-1B, News, News Alert|

New Details: Stateside Visa Renewal Pilot Begins on January 29, 2024

Earlier this afternoon the Department of State (DOS) shared the Federal Register notice with details of the highly-anticipated stateside visa renewal pilot program which will begin on January 29, 2024 and will end on April 1, 2024.     We [...]

By |2023-12-22T08:53:21-05:00December 20th, 2023|Articles, News, News Alert, Visa Processing|

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