Some of our most frequently asked questions are about visa appointments. With the holiday season coming up, we are sure you have a bunch of questions about visa appointments, wait times, dependent visa appointments, documents to take to the interview and more. Below is some important information and a compilation of some helpful resources for … Continue reading Holiday Season Travel and Visa Application Guide

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The difference between the visa expiration date and the length of time you have permission to remain in the United States can be confusing. To avoid violating your authorized stay, it is important to understand the difference between a U.S. visa, I-94, and I-797.   U.S. VISA A visa is a travel document. A U.S. … Continue reading When Does Your Immigration Status Expire? How to Interpret I-94, I-797, and Visa Documents.

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Recently enacted Equal Pay Transparency (EPT) laws will affect compliance with mandatory recruitment on PERM Labor Certification cases. Companies must stay on top of these new EPT requirements, as well as additional states that might follow suit in the near future with EPT laws of their own.   New York City’s EPT law recently went … Continue reading PERM Recruitment Impacted by Equal Pay Transparency Laws

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Effective August 19, 2022, Accrediting Council for Independent Colleges & Schools (ACICS) is no longer an Accrediting Agency. This loss of recognition may affect certain students applying for English language study and 24-month STEM OPT extension Programs with degrees from an Institution accredited only by ACICS, H-1B (Cap-Exempt), and I-140 Applicants. If you want to … Continue reading Accrediting Council for Independent Colleges & Schools (ACICS) is no longer a recognized Accrediting Agency. How does this impact Immigration status?

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U.S. immigration law allows American employers to bring foreign-born workers to the United States by way of temporary work visas. In many cases, permanent residency is the logical finish line of an individual’s immigration process. Obtaining permanent residency based on employment allows foreign-born workers to continue living and working in the U.S. indefinitely. Due to … Continue reading 4 Categories for Employment-Based Permanent Residency

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As immigration attorneys, part of our responsibility toward clients is paying attention to court cases that may affect their residency. Two such cases were decided earlier this year in such a way that led to big policy changes at the USCIS. The changes relate to the 3- and 10-year inadmissibility bans previously applied to foreign … Continue reading Two Recent Immigration Cases Led to Big Policy Changes

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Immigrants looking to travel to the U.S. legally often rely on what they believe are reputable legal services here in the United States. But not every organization representing itself as being able to offer legal advice should be trusted. Both individuals and companies should only trust a licensed immigration attorney. A recently resolved case in … Continue reading Why You Should Only Trust a Licensed Immigration Attorney

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Our position as immigration attorneys offers us plenty of opportunities to gauge the temperature of America’s business climate as it relates to immigration policy. So we weren’t surprised to read the results of a recently published study showing that business immigration is the number one policy concern among U.S. businesses. The study, the first of … Continue reading Study: #1 Policy Concern for Business Is Immigration

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United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) uses Form I-9 to verify and record employment eligibility for new hires. The current I-9 verification form expires and will be updated on October 31st, 2022. To simplify the form, DHS has proposed several changes to it, including:   Compressing Sections 1 and 2 from two pages to … Continue reading Form I-9 may undergo significant changes soon

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Authorized by the Modernizing Government Technology Act of 2017, the Technology Modernization Fund (TMF) is an investment program that aims to update government  services in order to enhance customer service, cybersecurity, and governmental entities. The Fund plans on doing this by decreasing the amount of independent data systems used and by transferring all paper files … Continue reading PERM Modernization Project to Improve Case Processing

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