Travel Bans Not Lifted – Airport Screenings End
Travel Ban Remains in Place for certain countries. silhouette plane in the air The U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) have published an advanced copy of a Notification [...]
Navigating the U.S. Immigration Labyrinth Right Now
Photo by Susan Yin on Unsplash Two summers ago, before my sons entered high school, we took a family trip to Italy. It seemed like the perfect time - my sons were old [...]
USCIS Budget Crisis
In May, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) notified Congress that the agency predicted a budget shortfall for the remainder of 2020, reportedly due to a lower volume of filings received during the COVID-19 pandemic. [...]
Visa Articles to Review
Two articles from 2020 discuss some issues for which you need to be aware. Following are the articles and the bullet points for each: Article: USCIS Informs 13,000 Federal Employees of Potential Furloughs Without Emergency [...]
Charting the Course for H-1Bs and Other Visas Through COVID-19
Photo by CALIN STAN on Unsplash U.S. Immigration laws and regulations have always required immigration attorneys to have a certain level of creativity to problem solve. Keeping current on regulation changes, combined with [...]
An H-1B Season of Transition Begins
Photo by Markus Spiske on Unsplash On February 3, 2020 a coding flaw in a mobile app delayed the tabulation and reporting of the Iowa Democratic Caucus results. This high-profile failure reminds us [...]
What’s New for This H-1B Cap Season
The week following Thanksgiving often signals the beginning of the holiday shopping season for those who did not dive in while still digesting their turkey dinner. As an immigration attorney, this week always turns my [...]
International Student Enrollment Is Tapering, But Not for the Reasons You May Think
Unlike many lawyers I know, I did not go directly from my undergraduate studies to law school. In fact, when I graduated from Boston University with a Bachelor’s degree in International Relations, I wasn’t sure [...]
Universities and IT Firms Challenge USCIS Policies on Unlawful Presence and Third-Party Worksites
As a lifelong fan and supporter of the foreign national community, it has been hard for me to watch the Trump Administration enact increasingly stringent visa policies and practices. Today I’m happy to report that [...]
H-1B Visas: What You Need to Know About Filing in 2019
Source: Cheryl Empey via FreeImages.com As a dedicated immigration attorney, I’ve been steadfast in my H-1B visa service and searching for a nugget of good news on this front during the past few [...]
USCIS Is Phasing Out Online Self-Scheduled InfoPass Appointments
As your immigration attorney I try to take care of as much of your application process and answer as many of your questions as I can. On occasion an issue or question arises which requires [...]
New Unlawful Presence Guidelines Increase Vigilance on International Students and Exchange Visitors
Recently a student called my office asking to talk to the “F-1 attorney.” The student was employed using his STEM Optional Practical Training (OPT) and his employer was seeking to change his status to H-1B [...]