US Immigration News

Despite spending $80 billion a year on information technology, US Visa immigration data collected by the US government is a mess according to an Economic Policy Institute (EPI) report. The EPI identified severe lapses in the recording of H1B, L1 and other non-immigrant visa related data, and slammed the government’s data collection agencies for shoddy work.  

It seems that the Trump administration may bring in further restriction for the H1B specialty worker visa and L1 visa programs (includes the L1A intra-company transfer visa for executives and managers and L1B intra-company transfer visa for specialized knowledge workers).  There are also concerns that the EB5 Immigrant Investor Visa Program may become much more difficult in future or may even be cancelled.  Wealthy

Confusion over US work visas for Canadian specialized nurses sparked problems at American borders recently. Concerns had been raised that some Canadian nurses had encountered problems either renewing their non-immigrant NAFTA Professional (TN) visa or getting the classification at the US border.

Australians living and working in the US on E3 visas, a special visa for Australians doing professional level work usually with at least a bachelors degree, are urging the Turnbull government to demand ‘tolerance and evidence-based policy-making from Donald Trump’s White House.’ Employers fear that a raft of sweeping reforms targeting US work visas will have a damaging effect on their ability to employ foreig

New Zealand’s embassy in Washington D.C. has recruited Stuart Jolly - a former campaign field director for US president Donald Trump - to aid the country’s push for access to US E1 Treaty Trader and E2 Treaty Investor visas.

Earlier this year in a post on his company’s blog, Ethan Diamond the founder and CEO of Bandcamp – an online music store and platform for artist promotion that caters for independent musicians – has pledged to donate all of Bandcamp’s proceeds from Friday February 3 to the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) in support of immigrants against the US Visa “muslim ban”.