The Green Card or Resident Alien Card or Form I-551, is the permanent work and residence permit for foreign nationals who reside legally in the U.S. What are the basic requirements? Employment-based i...
Class Action Settlement Gives Second Chance to Qualifying US Employers for H-1B Petition Approval
By Leslie Dellon, Immigration Impact A recent class action settlement is expected to result in U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) approving more market research analyst H-1B petitions. ...
Diversity Visa Lottery Winners Might Lose Chance to Come to the U.S. Due to Delays, Trump Policies
By Walter Ewing, Immigration Impact For the second year in a row, many winners of the diversity visa lottery face the prospect of losing their chance to come to the United States because the federal g...
USCIS Will Allow Resubmission of Certain FY 2021 H-1B Petitions Rejected or Closed Due to Start Date
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services announced today it will accept resubmitted fiscal year (FY) 2021 H-1B cap-subject petitions that were rejected or administratively closed solely because the r...
USCIS Issues Policy Providing Further Protections for Victims of Crime
WASHINGTON—U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services is updating the USCIS Policy Manual to implement a new process, referred to as Bona Fide Determination, which will give victims of crime in the U...
Biden Administration Revokes Trump’s Health Insurance Visa Ban
By Walter Ewing, Immigration Impact President Biden revoked a proclamation issued by former President Trump in 2019 that required nearly all prospective immigrants to demonstrate that they would be co...
New H-1B Rule Favoring High-Wage Workers ‘Kneecaps’ Nonprofits – Lawsuit
By Daniel Wiessner, Reuters A coalition of trade groups and nonprofits have filed a challenge to a Trump-era U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services rule that would replace the decades-old random lo...
USCIS May Reopen H-1B Petitions Denied Under Three Rescinded Policy Memos
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) office located in Silicon Valley; USCIS is an agency of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) – Nov 20, 2019 Santa Clara / CA / USA (Sh...
Tips to Avoid Common Mistakes with H-1B Electronic Registration
During last year’s H-1B electronic registration period, the top two user errors were: Creating the wrong type of account; and Entering the same beneficiary more than once. Make Sure You Create the R...
What You Need to Know About the Latest Changes to the H-1B Registration Process
By Leslie Dellon, Immigration Impact The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) recently issued a final rule changing the way U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) selects the registrations...