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USCIS To Close International Offices
July 10th, 2019
USCIS plans to close all of its international field offices by March 10, 2020. USCIS already closed the Ciudad Juarez Field Office in Mexico and the Manila Field Office in the Philippines, and plans to take a staggered approach with the remainder of…
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Proposed H-1B Registration Fee Regulation Pending Review at OMB
June 26th, 2019
On May 22, 2019, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) published its Spring 2019 Fall Unified Agenda of Regulatory and De-regulatory Actions. This list is a public overview of anticipated federal regulatory actions. It is important to note that t…
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New Zealand Nationals Now Eligible for E-1 & E-2
June 12th, 2019
Starting last Monday, June 10, 2019, USCIS announced that New Zealand nationals can request a change of status to the E-1 nonimmigrant trader classification and E-2 nonimmigrant investor classification. E-1 status allows citizens of specific countrie…
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USCIS Starts Premium Processing for H-1B Petitions Today
June 10th, 2019
Today, June 10, 2019, USCIS will begin premium processing for the remaining fiscal year 2020 H-1B cap-subject petitions. Starting today, petitioners may file the request for premium processing, or the Form I-907, with the USCIS service center that is…
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DOL Will Only Accept ETA-9141 via FLAG System
June 10th, 2019
Starting today, June 10, 2019, the Department of Labor will only accept the Application for Prevailing Wage Determination (Form ETA-9141) in the Foreign Labor Application Gateway (FLAG) System. This change is a part of the Department’s initiati…
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Check-in with DOS's Charlie Oppenheim
June 4th, 2019
AILA’s Department of State (DOS) Liaison Committee checks in each month with Charlie Oppenheim, the Chief of the Visa Control and Reporting Division at DOS for updates about Visa Bulletin progress. Oppenheim also provides analysis of current tr…
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DHS Adjusting Student and Exchange Visitor Program (SEVP) Fees
May 29th, 2019
DHS issued a final rule which will increase fees for the Student and Exchange Visitor Program (SEVP), effective 06/24/2019. It adjusts fees for school certification petitions and applications for nonimmigrants seeking to obtain F visas (academic stud…
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USCIS Announces eProcessing
May 23rd, 2019
On May 22, 2019, USCIS announced a new strategy called eProcessing that will accelerate USCIS’s transition to a digital business model. What is eProcessing? eProcessing will allow beneficiaries to do everything online including applying for a b…
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Texas Service Center to Accept Form I-129 for H-1B Petitions
May 22nd, 2019
On May 20, 2019, the USCIS Texas Service Center will begin processing the Form I-129, Petition for a Nonimmigrant Worker, for certain H-1B cap-exempt petitions requesting: A change in previously approved employment A change of employer Concurrent emp…
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USCIS Completes Data Entry of FY2020 H-1B Cap-Subject Petitions
May 20th, 2019
On May 17, 2019, USCIS finished entering the data of FY2020 cap-subject petitions selected in the lottery. The lottery is a computer-generated, random selection process and includes petitions under the advanced degree exemption. As they have done in…
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