Our office has observed a troubling trend of the Department of Labor (DOL) issuing denials of PERM Labor Certifications (Form ETA-9089) based on allegedly “incomplete” explanations in Appendix C. This action frequently stems from how employers answer [...]
The U.S. State Department has released the August 2026 Visa Bulletin which is the eleventh Visa Bulletin for the fiscal year. The headline in this month’s Visa [...]
USCIS has announced that they have reached the H-1B cap limit for fiscal year 2027 (FY 2027) after the initial (and only) selection round. This means that they will not be conducting additional lottery rounds of selection after [...]
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has issued a final rule officially rescinding the 2022 Biden-era regulation regarding public charge determinations. The now-rescinded Biden-era regulation restricted which public benefits DHS could consider, [...]
The U.S. State Department has released the July 2026 Visa Bulletin which is the tenth Visa Bulletin for the fiscal year. The headline in this month’s Visa Bulletin is the [...]
On June 8, 2026, a federal judge in the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts issued a sweeping decision (PDF copy) striking down the $100,000 H-1B visa payment requirement originally instituted under Presidential Proclamation 10973. The court declared [...]
The Department of Labor (DOL) will implement its annual update to the prevailing wage data used for employment-based immigration programs on July 1, 2026. Because the prevailing wage serves as a required minimum salary for several visa categories, these updates routinely result in higher wage floors across the country. Employers planning to file new or [...]
The U.S. State Department, working in close collaboration with U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), has announced that all available immigrant visas in the Employment-Based Second Preference (EB-2) category for applicants chargeable to [...]
On May 21, 2026, USCIS issued Policy Memorandum (“PM-602-0199”), which lays out the agency’s view that Adjustment of Status (Form I-485) under INA § 245(a) is an “extraordinary” [...]
The U.S. State Department has released the June 2026 Visa Bulletin which is the ninth Visa Bulletin for the new fiscal year. The headline in this month’s Visa Bulletin is [...]
