Satheesh Kumar Ilu 
DHS published an interim final rule in the federal register today, October 30th, 2025, that ends the 540-day Automatic Employment Authorization Document(EAD) extension for many visa types, including H4, L2, Adjustment of Status (AOS), and other applicants. In this article, we will look at the background, how the end of automatic EAD extensions would work, …
As most of you know, President Trump signed a Proclamation on Friday, September 19, 2025, that adds a $100,000 fee for H1B applicants who are outside the US and planning to enter America. Despite the guidance from USCIS and CBP on the $100K fee for H1B applicants, some areas remained ambiguous due to a lack …
President Trump signed a Proclamation(similar to an Executive Order) on September 19th, 2025, that adds a $100,000 fee for H1B visa applicants planning to enter the US from abroad. There was a lot of chaos due to the lack of proper guidance from USCIS or the Department of State. Eventually, there was some guidance given …
The Trump Administration sent a memo to some of the U.S. universities asking them to change some of their admissions practices and how they operate, including putting a cap on the total international students at a university. In this article, we will review the key points from the memo, who it impacts, and how it …
Since the Trump Administration took office for its second term, its focus has been on tightening the H1B program to prevent fraud and modifying it to protect American Jobs. Last week, there was chaos with Trump signing a proclamation adding a $100K fee for new H1B holders outside of US. Later, USCIS and CBP gave …
It has been chaos since President Trump signed a proclamation that adds a $100,000 fee for H1B applicants who are outside the US and planning to enter America, as many things were unclear from the announcement. Earlier today, on Saturday, September 20, 2025, USCIS and Customs and Border Protection (CBP) released policy memos clarifying President Trump’s H-1 …
On Friday, September 19th, 2025, President Trump signed a Proclamation, similar to an Executive Order(EO), that imposes a $100,000 fee for H1B visa applicants trying to enter the US from abroad. There was a press briefing from White House before that, which had some generic statements that were confusing, but with the actual proclamation text …
There is a lot of buzz in the Indian media outlets regarding the bill ‘‘Halting International Relocation of Employment“(HIRE) Act that was introduced by Senator Bernie Moreno, who is a Republican Senator from Ohio. While the Bill introduced by him is a fact, it has a very long way to go. There is little information …
Since the Trump Administration took office for a second term in 2025, it has reintroduced many of the regulations that were not implemented during its first term, such as the weighted wage-based selections for the H-1 B lottery. In the context of the F1 Visas, in the first term, they attempted to implement a rule that …
The US Department of State made an official press release on July 25, 2025, that outlined the end of the Dropbox Visa Stamping for most non-immigrant visas, except certain B1/B2 and other diplomatic visa types, starting from September 2nd, 2025. As part of that initiative, the US Department of State rolled out new changes to …