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Keeping true to the February executive order, "Restoring Faith in Our Legal Immigration Systems and Strengthening Integration and Inclusion Efforts for New Americans," the Biden-Harris...

The IFR, published in October 2020, called to bring about changes in the definitions of ‘third-party worksite, employer-employee relationship and specialty occupation, all of which would have restricted the ability of services companies to place H-1B visa holders at client or third-party worksite, impacting Indian companies.

President Biden’s Proclamation Rescinds the “Muslim Ban” On his first day in office, President Joe Biden signed Proclamations 9645 and 9983, which immediately ended earlier executive orders and presidential proclamations that prevented certain individuals from entering the United States, mostly from Muslim countries, commonly referred to as the “Muslim Ban.” The ban suspended U.S. embassies from issuing both immigrant (i.e., U.S. permanent residency applications, also known as “gree...

President Biden’s Proclamation Rescinds the “Muslim Ban” On his first day in office, President Joe Biden signed Proclamations 9645 and 9983, which immediately ended earlier executive orders and presidential proclamations that prevented certain individuals from entering the United States, mostly from Muslim countries, commonly referred to as the “Muslim Ban.” The ban suspended U.S. embassies from issuing both immigrant (i.e., U.S. permanent residency applications, also known as “gree...

and withdrawing all pending rules that had not yet been published in the  Federal Register. Under the Trump administration’s continued “Buy American and Hire American” policy, these late-enacted regulations were largely focused on continuing to restrict high-skilled worker visas by changing the H-1B lottery selection process, realigning the U.S. Department of Labor’s (DOL) prevailing wage requirements to higher salary percentiles for H-1B visa holders, and placing additional obligat...

Friday, December 11, 2020 In last month’s Epstein Becker Green Immigration Alert, we reported that the U.S. Department of Labor (“DOL”) and U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (“USCIS”) had published interim final rules (“IFRs”) titled, respectively, “Restructuring of H-1B/H-1B1/E-3 and PERM Wage Levels” and “Strengthening the H-1B Nonimmigrant Visa Classification Program.” On December 1, 2020, a U.S. district court in California, in  Chamber of Commerce,...