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- April 1st, 2015
- Basic Filing Fees Raised From $320 to $2,000
- CBP Makes Online I-94 Application, Payment Available to Travelers Arriving at a Land Port of Entry
- CBP Website Now Allows Nonimmigrant Travelers Access to Arrival/Departure Records
- China-Mainland And India Employment Second Preference Category Numbers Will Be Unavailable
- DACA: Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals - Do you qualify?
- Daca Extensions Now Possible
- DHS Announces Expanded List of STEM Degree Programs
- DV 2013 Program registration begins October 4, 2011
- DV 2014 Program-Online Registration
- EB-5 Regional Center Economic Development Program Hits Historic High
- EMPLOYMENT PREFERENCE GREEN CARDS AVAILABLE UNTIL AUGUST 17, 2007
- Export Controls Attestation Requirement Started February 20
- F2A Cut-off Date Established for Spouses and Children of Permanent Residents in October Visa Bulletin File by September 30 or Miss This Opportunity
- FAQs on RIR Conversion Opportunity deadline January 20, 2007
- FYI 2018 H-1B Cap Season Begins April 3, 2017
- Get Ready... Get Set... File H-1B applications
- H-1B and H-1B1 "continuation of previously approved employment" filed ONLY at NSC
- H-1B Cap Reached for Fiscal Year 2012, USCIS no longer accepting H-1B petitions for FY2012
- H-1B numbers for Fiscal Year 2010 Are Going Fast
- H-1B Portability Work Authorization Not Applicable to H1B Change of Status Petitions
- H-1B SEASON IS NOW!
- H-1Bs Will Be Available, But Only For A Short Time
- HR professionals Immigration Seminar 2007
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- I AM ON AN H-1 VISA AND HAVE JUST BEEN LAID-OFF - WHAT DO I DO NOW?
- Important Announcement Regarding H-1B Fiasco
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- Passports Now Required for Travel Within Western Hemisphere
- President’s Actions on Immigration
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- Prosecutorial Discretion is not Amnesty
- The first DACA approvals will begin to expire in September 2014. To avoid a lapse in the period of deferral and employment authorization, individuals must file renewal requests before the expiration of their current period of DACA. USCIS encourages requestors to submit their renewal request approximately 120 days.
- The U.S.C.I.S. has released an interim final rule extending the period of Optional Practical Training (OPT) for qualified F-1 non-immigrant students
- The U.S. Embassy in India is implementing a new visa processing system through a new website. Beginning September 26, 2012
- Time To Think About Filing FY 2014 H-1B Petitions
- U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced today, Monday April 7th, that it has received a sufficient number of H-1B petitions to reach the statutory cap for fiscal year (FY) 2015. USCIS has also received more than the limit of 20,000 H-1B petitions filed under the U. S. advanced degree exemption
- USCIS Employer - Employee Memo
- USCIS is issuing erroneous denials of COS and AOS applications where the foreign-national has purchased, but not used, an airline ticket to depart the U.S.
- USCIS Memo Time in H4 and L2 Status No Longer Counts Towards H1 or L1 Time
- USCIS Reaches FY 2009 H-1B Cap
- USCIS Reaches FY 2010 H-1B Cap
- USCIS Reaches FY 2011 H-1B Cap As of January 26, 2011
- USCIS received nearly 233,000 FY 2016 H-1B Cap petitions well above the 65,000 general-category cap and the 20,000 cap under the advanced degree exemption. What happens next?
- USCIS Validation Instrument for Business Enterprises (VIBE) Activated for Employment Based Petitions; H1B, E, L, R, TN, & I-140 s etc.
- Visa Office Update on Employment Based Priority Dates and Demand, 20 January 2012
- What is H1B Season?
- Will you be filing an H-1B Cap Case this April? Here is some important information you need to know
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