On May 25, 2018, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced a temporary rule with the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) which was released on May 31, 2018, to increase the number of available H-2B nonimmigrant visas by up to 15,000 through the end of Fiscal Year 2018, which […]
Proposed Rule to Remove International Entrepreneur Parole Program
30 May
by Foster LLP, on Immigration Updates
On May 29, 2018, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) published a notice of proposed rulemaking in the Federal Register for the Removal of the International Entrepreneur Parole Program with a deadline for public comment of June 28, 2018. The International Entrepreneur Parole Program (“Program”) created a limited option […]
The U.S. Department of State (DOS) published the Monthly Visa Bulletin for June 2018, reflecting minor progress of only four (4) days for EB-2 India and only one (1) week for EB-5 China and EB-5 Vietnam, along with no change in the other countries and preference categories. The EB-1 category remains […]
This week U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) announced it had doubled the number of ongoing worksite cases in just the first seven months of the current fiscal year compared to the previous fiscal year in its entirety. ICE statistics show that from October 1, 2017 through May 4, 2018, […]