A draft of a fourth Presidential Executive Order titled “Executive Order on Protecting American Jobs and Workers by Strengthening the Integrity of Foreign Worker Visa Programs” has been leaked, [...]
On Friday, January 27, 2017, the President signed a further Executive Order mandating: 1. Additional screening for all U.S. immigration applications 2. Suspension of the Visa Interview Waiver Program 3. A travel [...]
Charles ("Charlie") Oppenheim from the Department of State recently shared the latest update on the availability of various immigrant visa (aka green card) preference categories, both family-based and employment-based. [...]
The U.S. Department of Labor has released its statistics for the 2016 fiscal year. The Department of Labor oversees the PERM labor certification process, which is often the first [...]
The level of demand in green card availability, particularly in the employment-based preference categories, increased significantly late last winter and that demand has since been sustained. The following outlines the [...]
In our September blog, we outlined the respective immigration positions of the Presidential nominees of the Republican and Democratic parties. The elections are now over and the results are [...]
In its November Journal, the State Bar of California has issued a stern warning to immigrants. The state is concerned that “unscrupulous ‘consultants’, ‘advisers’, and ‘notarios’ prey on newcomers who [...]
U.S. Immigration application fees are set to rise by an average of 21% beginning December 23, 2016. The last government fee increase was in 2010. The following is a [...]
The Department of State has released details for the 2018 Diversity Immigrant Visa Program (DV-2018), more commonly known as the “green card lottery.” The electronic entry/registration window is open [...]
The new government fiscal year is about to commence with some significant moves across the Department of State’s immigrant preference categories, which dictates the availability of green cards. The October [...]