Chicago Immigration and Naturalization Law Blog

Congress has reached an agreement to revive the EB-5 visa program that allows foreign investors to apply for a green card if they invest in U.S. real ...

The annual H-1B visa lottery begins March 1, 2022, for the 2023 H-1B visa lottery fiscal year that begins on October 1, 2022. But what should applican...

The government has recently proposed changes to the H-1B lottery. The H-1B visa is a temporary visa for foreign nationals who want to work and live in...

On January 27, 2022, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the Department of Labor (DOL) announced the addition of 20,000 H-2B temporary nona...

Effective December 28, 2021, USCIS (US Citizenship and Immigration Service) will accept requests to expedite the processing of applications to renew E...

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. â...

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 ...

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 vis...

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 ca...