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Employers applying for L-1 visas to fill managerial and specialist knowledge job vacancies under ‘blanket’ approval are now required to complete a new, longer form that further probes the employment history of potential workers. The new form was introduced on August 29, 2016.
Concerns over US immigrant screening continues to grow following a spate of terror attacks that hit the US in the space of 12 hours in September 2016. Attacks in New York, New Jersey and Minnesota on September 17 – 18 have fuelled speculation that US immigration authorities are failing to identify threats to national security.
Applications for the 2018 Diversity Immigrant Visa Lottery (DV-2018) started to be accepted from October 4, 2016, as announced by the US Department of State. This year people from Ecuador can apply under the green card lottery scheme. Applicants must submit their entries electronically between noon on October 4, 2016 and noon on November 7, 2016, Eastern Standard Time. Only a few days left.
US employment-based green cards are becoming more readily available for many immigrants coming to the United States on EB employment based immigrant category visas, from October 1, 2016. As announced in the October edition of the Visa Bulletin, the US Department of State will be processing applications under the EB-1 immigrant visa category for all countries of birth as of October 1.
12,000 Afghans promised visas for helping American soldiers in Afghanistan are in danger due to a lack of US immigrant visas and visa delays.
According to the Counsellor for Public Affairs at the US Embassy in Jamaica, Joshua Polacheck, applications for US non-immigrant visas – mainly the B-1 business visitor visa and B-2 visitor for pleasure, but also including work visas such as the E-1 treaty trader and E-2 treaty investor visas and
During the August 2016 visit to India, Michele Bond, the US Assistant Secretary of State for Consular Affairs revealed that despite a hike in USCIS H-1B and L-1 visa fees on December 19, 2015, Indian nationals remain the highest beneficiary of these non-immigrant visa categories. According to Bond, India accounts for 70% of H-1B visas and 30% of L-1 visas issued worldwide by Washington.
Despite shrugging of pre-election anti immigration remarks by Donald Trump and others concerning US work visas, the chief of India’s software trade lobby group the National Association of Software and Services Companies (Nasscom), R Chandrashekhar, is growing increasingly concerned over what he calls ‘discriminatory plans’ to hike US H-1B and L-1 visa fees.
According to a report submitted to US Congress by Citizenship and Immigration Services Ombudsman, Maria Odom, US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) is issuing a high number of requests for evidence (RFEs), especially for L-1A and L-1B visas. The CIS report states that ‘USCIS continues to frustrate employers with a series of processing delays.’
According to a report published by US immigration reform group, FWD.us, which is backed by Facebook founder and CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, voters in so-called critical ‘swing states’ hold adverse views towards Donald Trump’s US immigration plans, which involve deporting 11 million undocumented migrants.
Swing states are US states where the Republican and Democratic parties have similar levels of support among voters, which are viewed as important in determining the overall result of a Presidential election.
Student visa programs are a way for countries to increase their “soft power” worldwide. Those international students who eventually return to their home country will most likely have fond memories of where they studied. They are also likely to do better than the average student back home. People in powe
US visa and citizenship fee increase blocked by federal judge
Hootsuite founded in 2008 by Ryan Holmes and others, provides expensive and some would say over priced social media management services. Hootsuite had a contract with ICE that it has now apparently cancelled. The decision not to provide services to
H1B visas are already difficult to obtain. Some people say that H1B visa holders are underpaid. Is that really true? You currently have to obtain a “prevailing wage” from the Department of Labor for H1B visa workers to show that you are paying a high enough salary. Then for most employers to employ a new worker you have to come under the 85,000 visas a
Not a good time to introduce tougher public charge requirements putting of migrants from seeking coronavirus COVID-19 treatment. The number of coronavirus COVID-19 cases continues to rise. Latest news seems to be that the virus has mutated and become more contagious. Fortunately, the virus does not appear to have become more lethal.&
In the ricin laced letter sent to President Trump Pascale Ferrier referred to him as the “Ugly Tyrant Clown”. Donald Trump is not the only one who has been sent ricin packages. President Obama, Michael Bloomberg and others were all sent ricin packages in 2013 by former TV actress Shannon Richardson.&nb