On Monday, December 2, 2023, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced that the agency had received enough H-1B cap petitions to meet both the H-1B Regular Cap (65,000) and H-1B U.S. Master’s Cap (20,000). USCIS is now in the process of sending non-selection notifications to employer registrants’ online accounts. The status for registrations properly submitted but […]
The U.S. Department of State (DOS) has published the monthly Visa Bulletin for December 2024. Until December 1, the November 2024 Visa Bulletin remains in effect. The Visa Bulletin contains the DOS’s Final Action Dates chart, which lists the cutoff dates for each respective category, the categories that are current during the applicable […]
Now that the 2024 U.S. presidential election has been decided, there is understandably a great deal of focus on the impact the election will have on U.S. immigration law and policy. Not only was immigration a frequent topic of president-elect Trump during his campaign, but it was also a focus […]
DHS Announces New Protections for Lebanese Nationals Currently in the United States The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) recently announced the designation of Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Lebanon. Lebanese nationals, including individuals having no nationality who last habitually resided in Lebanon, who began residing in the United States on […]
