Chicago Immigration and Naturalization Law Blog

Each year, tens of thousands of applicants are not chosen in the annual H-1B lottery. There are 65,000 visa spots available for applicants with a bach...

Due to high demand from American businesses, an additional 35,000 H-2B visas – double the norm – for temporary nonagricultural worker visa...

Are you worried about your fiancée’s immigration visa process? The K-1 nonimmigrant visa is called the fiancé(e) visa. According to statistics rel...

R-1 visas are non-immigrant, temporary employment based visas for foreign nationals who want come to the United States to be employed as religious wor...

An O-1 visa allows someone with extraordinary abilities to temporarily enter the United States for work purposes. On January 21, 2022, the Department ...

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced on January 21, 2022, that 22 new fields of study are now included in the STEM Optional Practical T...

To help the United States’ economic recovery, the U.S. wants to attract more foreign J-1 STEM (science, technology, engineering or mathematics) ...

Due to the backlog of applications created by the pandemic, the U.S. State Department has waived student visa in-person interviews and other non-immig...

The Optional Practical Training (OPT) Program allows noncitizens who are in the United States on an F-1 student visa to work in the U.S. for up to thr...

The United States Citizenship and Immigration Service (USCIS) announced that it will reimburse U nonimmigrant status visa, or U Visa, fees charged by...