US Immigration Blog by former INS Trial Attorney Carl Shusterman. How to get a temporary working visa, a green card and U.S. citizenship.
In September 2019, Senators Mike Lee (R-UT) and Kamala Harris (D-CA) asked their colleagues to support a unanimous consent resolution to approve S386, the Senate version of H.R. 1044, the Fairness for High-Skilled Immigrants Act of 2019. H.R. 1044 was passed by the House of Representatives last July. The Act would abolish the 7% per-country […]
As part of the Department’s technology modernization initiative, the FLAG System has been developed to replace the legacy iCERT System, improve customer service, and modernize the administration of foreign labor certification programs through the Employment and Training Administration’s Office of Foreign Labor Certification (OFLC). OFLC is making this public service announcement to alert employers and […]
A few weeks ago, I got a call from a very prominent immigration attorney from one of the Rocky Mountain States to see if we were willing to file a Notice of Appeal in a naturalization case. Like most of us who have been practicing immigration law for a long while, he was very upset […]
Our asylum laws authorize the Attorney General to grant asylum if an applicant is unable or unwilling to return to her country of origin because she has suffered past persecution or has a well-founded fear of future persecution on account of political opinion, race, religion, nationality or membership in a particular social group. This commitment […]
The H-1B cap and the H-1B lotteries will remain largely the same this year as in prior years. The only significant change will be that the order of the 2 lotteries will be reversed. The filing season for cap-subject H-1B petitions will run from April 1 to April 5. In 2018, USCIS received just over […]
On March 8, the USCIS posted a new version of form I-539 online for persons seeking to extend or change their status. Although the current form I-539 can be used until March 21, after that the USCIS will accept only the new form. In addition, a new I-539A supplement will be required. Each family member […]
On January 25, Congress passed and the President signed, legislation to end the government shutdown until February 15. No funds for a border wall were included in the bill. Negotiations in Congress for avoiding another government shutdown will be intense. I have a few suggestions for fixing our current broken legal immigration system, so keep […]
Some good news: On February 4, 2021, years after I wrote the article below, newly-elected President Biden announced that the U.S. would raise the number of refugees admitted to our country from 15,000 per year to 125,000 annually starting on October 1. ****************************************************** Refugee resettlement is a small, but very important part of our country’s […]
The United States and New Zealand have entered into an agreement which allows citizens of New Zealand to open businesses in the US and become E-1 Treaty Traders and E-2 Treaty Investors to manage and grow their companies in the US. The KIWI Act was signed into law by President Trump in August and has […]
This happened to one of our clients who is a VA physician. Ever wonder what you would do if the USCIS suddenly revoked the benefits that they had given you in the past and now wants to deport you? A couple months ago, we were contacted by a foreign-born VA physician who was employed in […]
