Petitioning employers who employ 50 or more workers in the United States with more than half of those employees being H1-B or L visa holders are now having to pay higher filing fees of $2,000 for H1-B petitions and $2,500 for L visa petitions.The fee increase is part...
On September 16, ICE released a notice of the agency’s intent to issue more than 500 Notices of Inspections (NOI) to companies throughout the United States in the following week. According to ICE, the up tick in inspections is due to a growing number of leads on...
A recent meeting between immigration lawyers and representatives of the USCIS Verification Division provided some important updates on the E-Verify system.The Office of Special Counsel and E-Verify have signed an MOU to formalize information sharing between the two...
With the November elections approaching, the likelihood for comprehensive federal immigration reform is unfortunately minimal to non existent. For the remainder of the year, and possibly for sometime after, we anticipate immigration reform taking a back seat to other...
The Pew Center for Hispanic Research reported in September that the annual inflow of unauthorized immigrants to the U.S. was down significantly from March 2007 to March 2009 when compared to the same period from 2000 to 2005. This decrease resulted in an 8% reduction...
In July, the Vital Statistics Office of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico began issuing new, more secure certified copies of birth certificates to U.S. citizens born in the territory. Any certified copies of birth certificates issued prior to July 1, 2010 will become...
Petitioning employers who employ 50 or more workers in the United States with more than half of those employees being H1-B or L visa holders are now having to pay higher filing fees of $2,000 for H1-B petitions and $2,500 for L visa petitions.The fee increase is part...
On September 16, ICE released a notice of the agency’s intent to issue more than 500 Notices of Inspections (NOI) to companies throughout the United States in the following week. According to ICE, the up tick in inspections is due to a growing number of leads on...