Immigration

The U.S. Department of State (DOS) has published the Monthly Visa Bulletin for April 2022, revealing no movement or modest movement on both the “Dates for Filing” and “Final Action Dates” charts, with the exception of one category.   The April Visa Bulletin reveals no forward movement in the Dates […]

On March 29, 2022, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced that the agency would implement the statutory requirement to expand “premium processing” to additional types of petitions and applications and pursue other backlog reduction efforts. The following day USCIS published a Final Rule in the Federal Register which lists […]

On Tuesday, March 29, 2022, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced that the agency had completed the random numeric selection process (lottery) for allocating H-1B numbers among the properly submitted registrations under both the H-1B Regular Cap and H-1B U.S. Master’s Cap. USCIS has also now completed the process of notifying […]

Effective March 15, 2022, the EB-5 Regional Center Program (the “EB-5 Program”) has been reauthorized through September 30, 2027. This is the first long-term 5-year reauthorization of the EB-5 Regional Center Program and is expected to bring stability to the EB-5 Program. Among the proposed changes to the program is that the new […]