State Department, Feb. 11, 2025 "The White House issued Executive Order "Defending Women from Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government" on January...
OFLC, Feb. 14, 2025 OFLC Releases Public Disclosure Data and Selected Program Statistics for Q1 of Fiscal Year 2024 The Office of Foreign Labor Certification (OFLC) has released a comprehensive set...
Lapadat v. Bondi "As appellate judges, we generally defer to the reasoned and expert judgment of our colleagues in the Board of Immigration Appeals (“BIA”), whom we trust to carefully...
Visa Bulletin for March 2025 Notes D, E and F: D. RETROGRESSION IN THE EMPLOYMENT-BASED FOURTH PREFERENCE (EB-4) CATEGORY Due to high demand and number use throughout the first half of the fiscal...
NILC, Feb. 6, 2025 "In one of his first anti-immigrant Executive Orders (EOs), President Trump threatened to make undocumented immigrants “register” with the U.S. government or face...
Hedging bets, simultaneous publication of a "direct final rule" and a proposed rule on Jan. 4, 2021: "The Department of Homeland Security and the Department of Labor (DOL) are jointly issuing this direct final rule to extend DOL’s recently established system of discretionary Secretary of Labor review to H-2B temporary labor certification cases (H-2B cases) pending before or decided by the Department of Labor’s Board of Alien Labor Certification Appeals and to make technical, conforming changes to regulations governing the timing and finality of those decisions and of decisions from the Department of Labor’s Administrative Review Board in H2B cases."