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Federal Immigration Policy Developments

February 4, 2026 - Processing and vetting changes will affect travelers, visa holders, and employers The final weeks of 2025 saw a considerable flurry of activity in federal immigration policy. Announcements from the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), United States Customs and Border Protection (CBP), and the United States Department of […]

Automatic Extensions for EADs Eliminated for Most Noncitizens

November 24, 2025 - The new rule from DHS affects major immigrant categories and will have compliance and operational consequences for employers At the end of October, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), working through U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), announced an interim final rule (the rule) eliminating the automatic extensions of certain employment authorization documents (EADs) […]

Updating the Employment Eligibility Verification Process

April 29, 2024 - E-Verify+ is coming soon The integration of E-Verify with Form I-9 continues to inch along and should be completed soon. Because these tools — and their integration — represent such a vital aspect of the employment eligibility verification process in the United States today, staying current is imperative. Under federal law, all employers in the […]

USCIS Raises Fees

March 5, 2024 - Employers and applicants will soon be paying bigger filing fees for many employer based visa petitions. The United States Citizenship and Immigration Service (USCIS) announced the new fees in the Federal Register on January 31, 2024, effective on April 1. Fees haven’t been raised since 2016. The USCIS is a fee-funded agency that processes applications […]

H-1B Lottery Process for FY 2025 Begins March 6

March 4, 2024 - United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has met the deadline it set for itself just a few weeks ago and published guidance about the 2025 H-1B lottery process. The lottery opens at Noon EST on March 6, 2024, and concludes at noon EST on March 22, 2024. It is only during this 17-day period […]

The Crisis in Primary Care

February 13, 2024 - Addressing healthcare shortages through immigration The COVID-19 pandemic made clear that the healthcare system in the United States faces significant and longstanding challenges that will undermine our ability to respond to future public health threats. These challenges include an aging population, worker shortages at all levels, and a lack of diversity in the healthcare industry. […]

USCIS Policy Update Clarifies F and M Nonimmigrant Student Visa Process

January 16, 2024 - United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) recently updated its policy manual guidance for the F and M nonimmigrant visa categories. These categories are for noncitizens — as defined in section 101(a)(3) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 USC 1101(a)(3)) — seeking to study in the United States. The F-1 nonimmigrant academic student visa […]

Changes to the H-1B Program are on the Way

January 12, 2024 - The H-1B visa is a popular temporary program for employing foreign nationals in the United States. The program enables employers to petition for workers in “specialty occupations,” which requires a bachelor’s degree (or equivalent) in a specific specialty. STEM employers — Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics — usually qualify. Congress limits H-1B visa numbers to […]

Steep USCIS Filing Fee Increases Proposed

March 9, 2023 - On January 4, 2023, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) published a Proposed Rule to drastically increase various U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) filing fees. Under this proposed rule, fees could be increased by hundreds of dollars, from employment-based petitions to family-based petitions and everything in between. The Public Comment period for this Proposed […]

There is Still Time to Apply for the 2022 Diversity Visa Program

November 1, 2020 - The U.S. Department of State has continued the Diversity Immigrant Visa Program (aka “Green Card Lottery” and “DV Lottery”). The program, created by the Immigration and Nationality Act, establishes an annual limitation of 50,000 immigrant visas for diversity immigrants. It provides an opportunity for people from countries with historically low rates of immigration. All applications […]

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