Immigration Updates

Effective September 2, 2025, the U.S. Department of State (DOS) will impose stricter interview requirements for most nonimmigrant visas. The updated policy will generally require most nonimmigrant visa applicants, including applicants under the age of 14 and over the age of 79, to attend an in-person interview with a consular […]

The Department of State (DOS) announced updates to its reciprocal nonimmigrant visa policy that significantly reduce the validity period for nonimmigrant visas for more than 50 countries. The changes impact citizens of China, Nigeria, Venezuela, and other countries primarily throughout Africa and Asia.   Generally, the changes to DOS’s Visa Reciprocity […]

Pursuant to the “One Big Beautiful Act” signed into law on July 4, 2025, a new “visa integrity” fee of $250 will apply to every nonimmigrant visa (H-1B, L-1, O-1, F-1, J-1, B-1/B-2, etc.) issued by the U.S. Department of State (DOS), including dependent visas (H-4, L-2, F-2, J-2, etc.). […]

On Friday, July 18, 2025, 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 allotment of 65,000 numbers and the H-1B U.S. advanced degree exemption (“master’s cap”) allotment of 20,000 numbers for the federal government’s fiscal year 2026, which begins […]