Articles regarding US Immigration and Visas like H1B Visa, H4 Visa, F1 Visa, L1, L2 Visa, Green Card, and other aspects
Many companies do layoffs due to changes in strategy, cost-cutting measures, mergers, or due to downturns in their business. In such cases, employees lose their jobs and some of them could be H1B holders as well. In those cases, H1B employees need to think of their options and how it works. Before 2017, there was …
USCIS processing times for H1B visa petitions can sometimes get very long and some H1B holders may end up in situations, where they hit the 240 days mark and not sure, if they can work or not. As the H1B premium Processing is suspended until Feb 2019, many H1B holders are in similar situations with …
As part of the H1B Registration Process regulation document, DHS revealed many of their internal H1B statistics data regarding petitions filed, overall lottery numbers, premium petitions, US masters vs Regular quota filings, etc. This H1B data used to be only provided on request and not widely published to everyone. Now, it is officially published. Below …
As announced in Fall 2018 Regulatory Agenda, DHS and USCIS published the proposed new H1B petition pre-registration rule in Federal Register for public review and comments. It had an expected date of Oct 2018 for Notice of Proposed Rule Making (NPRM), but got delayed to December. Actual proposed rule document is 139 pages. We will …
Every regulation/rule , including H4 EAD removal, proposed by an agency like DHS goes through majority of the 9 steps in US Rule Making process . H4 visa EAD is planned to be removed by DHS and it is currently going through this process. We have mapped current H4 EAD revoke status to the standard …
Every regulation that is passed in the US has to go through a proper rule-making process. The US Federal Government rule-making process is a lengthy process, and only some of them make it all the way through all 9 steps; some just stop in the middle. US Federal agencies like DHS are required to publish …
As we have H4 EAD Rule Removal Process in progress by Trump Administration, on Nov 16th, House Representatives Anna G. Eshoo and Zoe Lofgren have introduced a new bill in House to “Allow certain H4 Dependent Spouses to Apply for Employment Authorization (EAD)”. Below is a quick summary and status. Update : This bill is …
If you are on L1 visa working in US, you would be planning to take your dependent spouse and children at some point. Sometimes, you may be single and plan to take your spouse along with you right after marriage. We will look into all these aspects like step by step process, documents checklist, letters …
After you go for US Visa stamping, if it is approved, you get your passport with US visa stamp foil glued inside it. Sometimes, you may see some text in the annotation section, like the company name or other details… But it can be confusing when you see some text that says “Clearance Received” or …
F1 visa status to H1B Visa Change of Status(COS) is one of the most common application types filed with USCIS. Unfortunately, some of the COS are denied due to various reasons, couple of these are not maintaining proper status by exceeding the unemployment days allowed and not having training plan compliance as per regulations. Unfortunately, …