Breaking News from USCIS: No deportation and possible work authorization for some young people.
WASHINGTON— Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano today announced that effective immediately, certain young people who were brought to the United States as young children, do not present a risk to national security or public safety, and meet several key criteria will be considered for relief from removal from the country or from entering into…
Report shows that Immigrants own 18% of small businesses even if they are only 13% of the US population!
Immigrant entrepreneurship is widely recognized as an important aspect of the economic role immigrants play. Surprisingly, until now, there has been relatively little basic information available about the number and characteristics of immigrant small business owners. This report breaks new ground in identifying small immigrant businesses and immigrant small business owners. It gives a detailed…
New Department of Labor (DOL) FAQs on Job Order, PERM
When an employer places a job order with a State Workforce Agency (SWA), is it required to indicate its name on the job order posting? If so, what should the employer do if the SWA’s procedures do not allow for the employer’s name to be visible to job seekers? In accordance with PERM regulations at…
Breaking news: FY 2013 H-1B Cap reached – as from June 11th
On June 11, 2012, USCIS received a sufficient number of petitions to reach the statutory cap for FY 2013. On June 7, 2012, USCIS also received more than 20,000 H-1B petitions on behalf of persons exempt from the cap under the advanced degree exemption. USCIS will reject petitions subject to the cap for H-1B specialty…
Bad News: July 2012 Visa Bulletin shows EB2 retrogressing for all other countries of the world to Jan 2009 while India and China – Unavailable until September 2012
Bad news for EB2 (Employment Based Category) categories for everybody in the world – India and Mainland China is UNAVAILABLE for India and China and for all other countries in the world retrogressing to Jan 2009. EMPLOYMENT-BASED PREFERENCES First: Priority Workers: 28.6% of the worldwide employment-based preference level, plus any numbers not required for fourth and fifth…
H1B visa news: According to AILA, the master cap might be finished by June 7th and regular cap probably by Monday June 11th 2012.
H1B visas for 2013 quota might be closed by June 11th 2012. We are hoping that they might be wrong. The American Immigration Lawyers Association, posted this today: “Assuming that the rate of H-1B filings has remained at least constant at 1,800 per day, another 7,200 cap-subject non-master’s H-1B petitions will have been filed by…
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