20 Apr
by Foster, on Immigration Updates
Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has recently announced sweeping changes to the Subclass 457 Visa category that will eventually lead to the elimination of the current Subclass 457 visa category and create a new temporary visa program. The Subclass 457 visa category is currently the most widely used employment based […]
20 Apr
by Foster, on Immigration Updates
The U.S. Department of State (DOS) published the Monthly Visa Bulletin for May 2017, which shows minor advancement in the “final action cut-off” dates and significant movement forward and backward in the “filing cut-off” dates. Final Action Cut-off Dates Notable advancements of final action dates are: EB-2 China – 3 […]
19 Apr
by Foster, on Immigration Updates
On Tuesday, April 18th, President Donald J. Trump signed the Buy American and Hire American Executive Order, which sets forth his Administration’s policy to “maximize . . . the use of goods, products, and materials produced in the United States” and to “rigorously enforce and administer the laws governing entry […]
On April 17, 2017, the U.S. Citizenship & Immigration Services (CIS) announced that the CIS received 199,000 FY-2017 H-1B petitions during the filing period from April 3 – 7, 2017. On April 11th, the CIS applied the required computer-generated random selection process (“lottery”) to select petitions under both the Master’s cap […]
