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Effective December 28, 2021, USCIS (US Citizenship and Immigration Service) will accept requests to expedite the processing of applications to renew Employment Authorization Documents (EADs) for qualifying healthcare workers. Qualifying healthcare workers can request expedited issuance of their EAD if: ...

March 1, 2022, is the first day that USCIS accepts H-1B visa applications for the 2023 H-1B visa lottery fiscal year that begins on October 1, 2022. • A federal court struck down the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) proposed...

An H-1B visa is an employment-based, non-immigrant visa for temporary workers in specialty occupations. There is an annual limit of 85,000 H-1B visas for highly educated and skilled foreign workers with specialized knowledge. With over 300,000 applicants in the annual...

Due to the backlog of applications created by the pandemic, the U.S. State Department will waive H-1B in-person interviews and other non-immigrant visa applications through 2022. Applicants for H-1B, L-1 and O-1 visas applying from abroad won’t be required to...

Foreign nationals seeking a nonimmigrant, temporary work visa for the U.S. for a specific time period need to qualify and apply for one of the many categories of temporary and special work visas. L-1A and B visas are for intra-company...

An Einstein visa is a nickname for an EB-1 visa, an employment-based immigration visa. It is available for foreign nationals with "extraordinary ability" and "sustained national and international acclaim," and is named after Nobel Prize winner Albert Einstien so he...

USCIS is opening a 3rd H-1B lottery on November 22, the first time they have offered three lotteries in one year. Applicants randomly selected in the third round H-1B visa lottery can start filing their H-1B petitions with The United...

President Biden's Build Back Better reconciliation and infrastructure bill was submitted to Congress on November 5, and key provisions of the bill would make more business immigration visas available including: • recapturing unused family and employment-based green card visa numbers...

The basic requirements for an E-2 treaty visa are that at least 50% of the U.S. business is owned by people or companies from your country of citizenship, and your home country must have a trade treaty with the United...

If you are in the United States with current valid status you can apply for a change of status to a TN visa. However, if you intend to travel multiple times in and out of the United States it is...