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U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) recently announced the launch of the Electronic Visa Update System (EVUS) website for early enrollments. Beginning November 29, 2016, all individuals with a People’s Republic of China issued passport bea… Read More

A new rule published by the Department of Homeland Security raises some immigration filing fees, starting December 23, 2016. United State Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) last updated the fee schedule in November of 2010. The table below… Read More

USCIS (United States Citizenship and Immigration Services) released updated processing time reports on October 18, 2016. The updated processing time reports include processing dates as of August 31, 2016. Processing times are included for the Califor… Read More

The lottery is a yearly process which issues 50,000 green cards to people from certain countries. Further, these countries have historically low immigration rates to the U.S. Moreover, almost all individuals who have completed the equivalent of a U.S… Read More

The Department of State and The U.S. Consulate General in Vancouver, Canada has confirmed that it will now accept applications filed by third-country foreign nationals apply for their first H-1B visa. This applies even if the application is based on… Read More

At the Department of Labor (DOL) stakeholder meeting on September 12, 2016, the acting Office of Foreign Labor Certification (OFLC) Administrator William Thomspon gave an update on the status of the Program Electronic Review Management (PERM) moderni… Read More

United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) proposed a rule on immigrant entrepreneurship. The president of American Immigration Lawyers Association, (AILA) Bill Stock, stated that this is a “welcome step, as we saw countless missed… Read More

The Visa Bulletin has been released by the U.S. Department of State for November 2016. View the November Visa Bulletin here. The visa bulletin is published monthly, usually about 2 weeks in advance of the next month. The dates listed in the bulletin… Read More