Can you qualify? This year around 30,000 Temporary Work Visas H-2B are available for companies interested in hiring workers for the upcoming summer season (from April to September 2021). These types of Visas are available for seasonal non-agricultural workers. Meaning positions related to landscaping, lifeguards for swimming pools and beaches, restoration, hospitality, nurses, among others in these categories, can qualify …
Salary wages will not prioritize H1B Visas selection
USCIS announced that the initial registration period for the fiscal year (FY) 2022 H-1B cap will open at noon Eastern on March 9 and run through noon Eastern on March 25. During this period, those who wish to file for an H-1B visa will provide information and submit their registrations. Important change: Contrary to selection by wages, a process previously announced by the Trump Administration, USCIS will select those eligible to file for H-1B visas by lottery …
Temporary Work Authorization Visa (H1B) Registrations Begins March 1
In order to apply for a Temporary Work Authorization (H1B) Visa this year you must register to start MARCH 1, 2021. It is extremely important to get started as soon as possible. If you need to work temporarily in the United States or have a job offer but unclear about what to do and how this process works, please …
4th Circuit Affirms Blocking of Trump Executive Order on Refugees
Today, January 8, 2021, the US Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit affirmed the preliminary injunction of the Maryland US District Court blocking the President’s Executive Order 13,888 attempting to create an “opt-in” system requiring that both a state and a locality provide their affirmative consent before refugees will be resettled there, thereby substantially burdening and blocking the settlement …
Re-Starting DACA – Filing as a Dreamer!
Thanks to recent court action, those who are eligible under the original DACA rules can now file new applications, despite the President’s executive order attempting to terminate the program. To do so, forms I-821, I-765, I-765WS must be filed with a $495 filing fee to the appropriate address. Substantial documentary evidence of eligibility must also be provided or the application …
4th Circuit Further Defines Family Asylum Group
A comprehensive decision, Sandra Hernandez-Cartagena v. William Barr (https://www.ca4.uscourts.gov/opinions/191823.P.pdf) by the 4th Circuit overturning and remanding a denial of asylum by an immigration judge, affirmed by the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA), affirms the legitimacy of a family unit as an appropriate social group for asylum protection. The Fourth Circuit found that the BIA’s decision denying the asylum claim was …
Trump administration has put DACA applications ‘on hold’ despite Supreme Court ruling restoring program
Trump administration officials said during a federal court hearing Friday that they have not “granted nor rejected” any applications for a program designed to protect young undocumented immigrants from deportation, but rather have put them “on hold” as the government discusses the future of the program. The virtual hearing in the U.S. District Court in Maryland was the first time …
Your asylum has been terminated!
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H-1B Statutes Are Carefully Crafted to Be Misleading to the Casual Reader
The H-1B statutes are lobbyist-written and carefully crafted to be misleading to the casual reader. The “prevailing wage” is one area where there has been great confusion; in particular H-1B wage levels. The H-1B wage or skill levels are entirely a bureaucratic creation that have no relation to the job market. The article published in the journal The Immigration Post, …
Unable to Depart US Due to Pandemic? Avoid Overstay!
Request “Satisfactory Departure” Were you admitted to the United States under the Visa Waiver Program (VWP)? —> There is no provision of law that would allow you to extend your stay. However, if you are unable to depart before their current period of admission expires due to exigent circumstances, there is an option to request relief in the form of …