The L-1A visa is a non-immigrant employment visa that allows a qualifying company to send a qualifying owner, manager, or executive employee to a qualifying related U.S. company with existing offices in the U.S. as an executive or manager or send the owner, manager, executive as manager or executive to the U.S. to establish an office in the U.S. The
This Policy Memorandum (PM) supplements and supersedes preceding 3rd Party Worksite PMs and continues the Trump Thumping of the H1B program to further the Buy American and Hire American Executive Order under the scheme of protecting U.S. workers. The PM compels USCIS officers to request detailed documentation to ensure an employer-employee relationship exists and is maintained while an employee is
USCIS Form I-131 Advance Parole is file with an I-485 Application to adjust status to lawful permanent residence. The general rule is that I-131 advance parole requests are denied where the I-485 applicant travels outside the US before approval of the I-131. An exception to the general rule has existed for decades that an I-131 Advance Parole request accompanying an
Approximately 140,000 employment-based immigrant visas are made available each fiscal year to international applicants seeking work in the United States. If you want to hire a foreign national for employment in the U.S., the process can seem overwhelming. Determining which forms to fill out, what government agency they need to go to and when can be a struggle if you
The U.S. is a nation of immigrant entrepreneurs. While immigrants make up 13 percent of the U.S. population foreign entrepreneurs start one in four businesses. How does an immigrant entrepreneur start a business in the U.S. and come to the U.S.? While we do not have an entrepreneur visa, there are many visas for startup founders to create and then
The credit card payment option is available for the 41 fee-based forms processed at USCIS Lockbox facilities. Applicants may pay by Visa, MasterCard, American Express or Discover by completing Form G-1450, Authorization for Credit Card Transaction (PDF, 260 KB). The completed G-1450 is placed on top of the filing sent to USCIS. USCIS will enter credit card data into the
No Procedural Changes for H-1B FY2019 Cap Season Confirms SCOPS USCIS Service Center Operations Directorate (SCOPS) confirmed no procedural changes for the FY2019 H-1B cap season is anticipated The discussed pre-registration system procedures will not be implemented. The same procedures as were used for the FY2018 H-1B season will be followed. USCIS does not anticipate premium processing will be suspended
https://www.dhs.gov/news/2018/01/31/secretary-homeland-security-kirstjen-m-nielsen-announcement-temporary-protected Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security announced that Syrians with Temporary Protected Status (TPS) status will be eligible to re-register for an extension of status for 18 months, through 9/30/19. The decision to extend TPS for Syria was made after a review of the conditions upon which the country’s designation is based, which was ongoing armed conflict and
The government filed a petition for a writ of certiorari before judgment, asking the Supreme Court to review the case before the Ninth Circuit issues judgment. (DHS v. Regents of the University of California, 1/18/18) (DHS v. Regents of the University of California, 1/18/18)
https://www.uscis.gov/news/news-releases/uscis-updates-policy-ensure-petitioners-meet-burden-proof-nonimmigrant-worker-extension-petitions Versión en español Release Date: Oct. 23, 2017 WASHINGTON – Under updated policy guidance (PDF, 97 KB), U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) is instructing its officers to apply the same level of scrutiny to both initial petitions and extension requests for certain nonimmigrant visa categories. The guidance applies to nearly all nonimmigrant classifications filed using Form I-129, Petition
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