The US government has announced plans to change the H1-B visa programme to give preference to workers with advanced American degrees, a move which could potentially have the effect of reducing visas for those educated elsewhere....
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced today a notice of proposed rulemaking that would require petitioners seeking to file H-1B cap-subject petitions to first electronically register with U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) during a designated registration period. Under the proposed rule, U...
As detailed in our podcasts as well as articles and blogs written by Karuna Chandani-Simbeck and Ron Klasko, with a 10+ year visa backlog for China EB-5 and the resulting slow-down of EB-5 investors from China, Regional Centers and Developers have considered India the new EB-5 frontier over the past few years. Although this was in...
As regular readers of this blog may remember, on January 10, 2018, Immigration and Custom’s Enforcement (ICE) delivered Notice of Inspections (NOIs) at 98 7-Eleven stores in 17 states, including California, Florida, Michigan, Missouri, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, and Texas....
People Tech Group, a Redmond, Washington information technology firm that provides technical contract workers to other companies, has been fined $355,000 for violating labor rules pertaining to H-1B high-tech visas. The U.S. Department of Labor investigated People Tech Group and found that it paid entry-...
USCIS began requesting that domestic applicants filing Form N-565, Application for Replacement Naturalization/Citizenship Document, go to an Application Support Center (ASC) appointment to submit biometric information (including photos, signature, and index fingerprint)...
A willful violator employer must comply with additional attestations under any LCA it files within five years of the willful violation finding. The only exception is when an LCA is filed for and used exclusively for exempt H-1B workers ...
A federal grand jury indicted Kishore Kumar Kavuru, charging him with visa fraud and mail fraud, announced United States Attorney Alex G. Tse and Department of Labor Office of the Inspector General Special Agent in Charge Abel Salinas. ...
The Wright State University’s board of trustees has agreed to settle a federal investigation into H-1B visa fraud for $1 million, announced Benjamin C. Glassman, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Ohio...
On December 12, 2016, the U.S. Department of Education (ED) announced that it no longer recognizes the Accrediting Council for Independent Colleges and Schools (ACICS) as an accrediting agency. This determination immediately affects two immigration-related programs: ...