Buy American, Hire American Creates Additional Bumps in H-1B Path
Have you ever driven a car on an unpaved road? It’s bumpy, and the path isn’t always clear. This is the situation immigration attorneys and their clients are facing with the H-1B process this year. In the past, once your petition was selected in the H-1B lottery, your chances of receiving the H-1B approval […]
Green Card Process Lengthens with New Interview Requirement
For the first time since I began practicing immigration law, the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service (USCIS) will require an interview for workers seeking green cards. This requirement goes into effect on October 1, 2017. Until now USCIS had requested interviews on a case-by-case basis and waived the interview most of the time. USCIS has […]
What Graduating Foreign Nationals Need to Know
The month of May brings graduation ceremonies and celebrations across the United States. For many foreign national students, this is both a time to cherish their new degree and to manage their transition from student visa to work permit. It comes as no surprise that this transition requires close attention in the era of the […]
Kane County Bar Association’s Immigration Seminar
On Thursday May 4th I’ll be speaking at the Kane County Bar Association 2017 Immigration Seminar. My topic is “An Overview of Business Immigration with Relevant Updates in the Areas of Work Visas, International Students and Permanent Residency”. Where: FONA International, 1900 Averill Road, Geneva, IL. From 1:00 – 4:30 p.m. Hot Topics include: What is Coming […]
U.S. Citizenship And Immigration Services (USCIS) & Department of Labor (DOL) Announce Further Measures to Detect H-1B Fraud & Tighten Rules
U.S. Citizenship And Immigration Services (USCIS) & Department of Labor (DOL) Announce Further Measures To Detect H-1B Visa Fraud & Tighten Rules While the H-1B petitions submitted for the lottery this cap season were still in transit to the USCIS, both the USCIS and the DOL announced several measures aimed at detecting H-1B visa […]
BE PREPARED FOR LIKELY H-1B VISA CHANGES
Image courtesy of Stuart Miles at Freedigitalphotos.net This year’s H-1B season has many of us nervously watching President Trump’s moves. Last week the President signed executive orders to build his promised wall at the border with Mexico and to find and deport unauthorized immigrants. A third executive order last Friday barring refugees and travelers from […]
How It All Started…And My Thanks
In weeks leading up to Thanksgiving, I want to thank you for your faith in me and for letting me help you support your foreign national employees. Helping foreign nationals has been a passion of mine from the time I was in college. When I went to Boston University for my undergraduate studies, many foreign […]
Uncertain U.S. Immigration Future May Still Benefit International Students
As an Italian-American it saddened me to read in The New York Times that Kansas State University in Manhattan, Kansas may be eliminating its Italian classes. Before I was an immigration attorney I studied Italian and obtained a master’s degree in Italian Studies from Brown University. Even sadder was the cause: a sharp drop […]