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In 2016, then-candidate Donald Trump promised to take a hard line on immigration, vowing to build a wall along the southern border and crack down on iscover Trump's immigration policy for 2024, focusing on securing the border, protecting American jobs, and cracking down on visa fraud and abuse. Learn about the end of the Diversity Visa Lottery and overhaul of the H-1B visa program, and how these changes will affect immigration and national security. Read on for a comprehensive look at Trump...

New University Rankings From Interstride Highlight International Student ...

Michael Harmon earned about $1 million by exposing visa fraud within an Indian company that does subcontract work for Fortune 500 companies. 

According to the Department of State's (DOS) Visa Bulletin for April 2023, the EB-4 category, which includes special immigrant religious workers, now has a worldwide backlog...

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced on March 31, 2023, that it is removing the requirement that civil surgeons sign Form I-693, Report of Immigration Medical Examination and Vaccination Record...

The manufacturing industry has been facing a significant skilled labor shortage for years, and the COVID-19 pandemic has only exacerbated this issue. With the industry in constant need...

On March 27, 2023, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced that the FY2024 H-1B cap lottery was complete. The results: a historically low selection rate—with many...

Here's another edition of “Ask Sophie,” the advice column that answers immigration-related questions about working at technology companies.

This week, the Global Immigration team at Smith Stone Walters would like to highlight the following recent updates from Australia, Canada, Germany…

USCIS expands premium processing for certain F-1 studentsNew online-filing procedures announced for F-1 students seeking OPT or STEM OPT extensions