Immigration Updates

 As detailed in a prior Foster Immigration Update, President Biden announced in June his plan to offer a solution for undocumented immigrants who are married to U.S. Citizens and have been in the United States for at least ten years. This “Parole-in-Place” program is designed to allow qualifying applicants to […]

On Monday, August 5, 2024, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced that the agency had completed the random numeric selection process for allocating H-1B numbers for the second round of the lottery.   USCIS has also now completed the process of notifying the registrations that have been selected. Registrations selected […]

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has announced that they will be selecting additional H-1B registrations that from those that were submitted in March 2024 for the fiscal year 2025 H-1B lottery. Petitioners with selected registrations from this second lottery will be eligible to submit H-1B cap-subject petitions for the […]

The U.S. Department of State (DOS) has published the monthly Visa Bulletin for August 2024. Until August 1, the July 2024 Visa Bulletin remains in effect.  The Visa Bulletin contains the DOS’s Final Action Dates chart, which lists the priority dates that are current in each respective category, the categories […]