Immigration Updates

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (CIS) has announced that the agency will allow premium processing for certain FY-2020 H-1B petitions filed under the annual quota beginning April 1st. The CIS has announced there will be restrictions and phased rollout of premium processing for cap cases beginning with petitions that request […]

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has announced that the revised Form I-539, Application to Extend/Change Nonimmigrant Status and new Form I-539A have now been published. However, USCIS will accept the old form through March 21. The Form I-539 is used for a variety of application types, including: Certain nonimmigrant […]

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has resumed premium processing for all H-1B petitions. As of Tuesday, March 12, 2019, all H-1B petitions may be upgraded to premium processing or filed originally with a request for premium processing. In recent years the CIS has discontinued premium processing for H-1B cap […]

Since February 22, 2019, the EB-5 Immigrant Investor Program Modernization Regulation (“EB-5 Modernization Regulation”) is under review at the Office of Management and Budget (OMB). The OMB Review is the final step in the agency rulemaking process before publication of a final rule. Once it passes the OMB review, the […]