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The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services has expanded premium processing to certain I-140 petitions, and premium processing of certain I-765 and I-539 applications is expected to...

U.S. immigration agencies have started 2023 at full steam and have issued numerous legal updates.

H-1B work visas are the most common work visas for foreign nationals in professional positions. The USCIS caps the number of H-1B’s they issue each year to 65,000 for those with a bachelor’s degree and an additional 20,000 to those with at least a masters from a US institution.

On January 27, 2023, the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced that the initial registration period for the fiscal year 2024 H-1B lottery will open on March 1,...

Employers who recently hired F-1 foreign students and wish to continue to employ them beyond the one or three years of Optional Practical Training employment authorization should...

It’s time to start preparing for the H-1B cap season. The H-1B cap registration period for Fiscal Year 2024 will open at noon Eastern on March 1, 2023, and run through noon on March 17,...

If you have a foreign national employee who is authorized to work for you pursuant to Optional Practical Training (OPT) or STEM OPT, now is the time to think about H-1B registration.

The city of Chicago, Illinois, in partnership with big business, is launching an effort to score jobs for foreign H-1B visa workers.

While the international student population in the United States saw a 15% drop in enrollment in the 2020-2021 academic year, Israeli students took part in the opposite trend.

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has announced several important changes this week: expansion of premium processing for several employment-based categories; resumption...