USCIS Continues to Accept FY 2012 H-1B PetitionsWASHINGTON—U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) today announced it continues to accept H-1B nonimmigrant petitions that are subject to the fiscal year (FY) 2012 cap. The agency began accepting these petition...
April 7, 2011Possible EB-2 Priority Date Movement in the Coming MonthsCite as "AILA InfoNet Doc. No. 11040563 (posted Apr. 5, 2011)"Following-up on his earlier observations on EB-1 demand and "spill-down" to EB-2 reported on InfoNet on March 29, 2011 (InfoNet Doc. No. 11032960&...
April 5, 2011Republicans Attempt to Change Outgoing Message on Immigration, AgainThis week, the conflicting messaging on immigration from Republican politicians is particularly hard to follow. Voters can “press one” for Senator Lindsay Graham’s message that immigration reform is reality if we jus...
March 31, 2011House Subcommittee Hearing Highlights U.S. Need for Foreign Scientists and EngineersToday, a House Immigration Subcommittee hearing underscored the U.S. economy’s reliance on scientists and engineers from abroad. The hearing, entitled “H-1B Visas: Designing a Program to Meet the Need...
March 31, 2011Employment-Based Immigration to the United States: A Fact SheetU.S. law provides employers with several limited ways to bring foreign workers into the U.S. on a temporary or permanent basis. Employment-based immigration visa categories generally have limited and static numerical caps...
March 31, 2011Report on Immigration Detention and Due ProcessOn March 17, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) published its Report on Immigration in the United States: Detention and Due Process. The report contains the conclusions of an investigation the IACHR carried out...
March 31, 2011Customs and Border Protection (CBP) –At a March 16 hearing of the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Homeland Security, Congresswoman Lucille Roybal-Allard (D-CA) condemned what she termed as the long and growing list of Border Patrol misconduct cases and called on ...
March 31, 2011EB-2 Visa AvailabilityEB-2 Visa Availability – Charlie Oppenheim, Chief, Immigrant Visa Control and Reporting Division, U.S. Department of State, informed AILA of a dramatic reduction in the use of EB-1 numbers. He stated:“[US]CIS says they have seen a decline in filings, and ...
March 31, 2011Physical TherapistsThe Advisory Opinions Office of the State Department will issue interim guidance to the U.S. Embassy in Manila which has been erroneously denying visitor visas to physical therapists seeking to come to the U.S. in order to take the National Physical Therapy Examina...
March 31, 2011USCIS Announces FY2012 H-1B Petitions Will Be Accepted Starting April 1, 2011WASHINGTON - U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced today it will start accepting H-1B petitions subject to the fiscal year (FY) 2012 cap on April 1, 2011. Cases will be ...
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