USCIS, Sept. 23, 2024 " U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services today posted a Federal Register notice establishing procedures for Liberians covered by Deferred Enforced Departure to apply for Employment Authorization Documents that will be valid through...
Cyrus Mehta, Kaitlyn Box, Aug. 5, 2024 "On August 2, 2024, the D.C. Court of Appeals issued its opinion in Save Jobs USA v. DHS , upholding the regulation that provides employment authorization to certain H-4 spouses of H-1B nonimmigrants. Save Jobs USA...
Nebraska Chamber Foundation, Jan. 2024 "Workforce is the top competitive issue facing business in America. First, there is a lack of workers with specific skills that has created severe shortages in critical occupations. Across the country, states and communities...
Federal Register / Vol. 89, No. 48 / Monday, March 11, 2024 "This notice announces that the Secretary of Homeland Security (Secretary) is suspending certain regulatory requirements for F–1 nonimmigrant students whose country of citizenship is Venezuela...
Tim Balk, NY Daily News, Nov. 13, 2023 "Gov. Hochul, who had pursued the idea of issuing state-approved work papers to migrants, took the plan off the table Monday, saying she would not have been able to protect New York employers from criminal exposure...
USCIS, Oct. 27, 2023 "Certain renewal applicants who have filed Form I-765, Application for Employment Authorization, qualify for an automatic extension of their expiring employment authorization and/or employment authorization documents (EADs) while their...
Cyrus D. Mehta, Kaitlyn Box, Oct. 3, 2023 "In the face of Congressional inaction to fashion an immigration solution for the United States, the Administration does have broad authority to grant an employment authorization document (EAD) to noncitizens. It...
USCIS, Sept. 12, 2023 "... This policy update provides additional guidance regarding the evaluation of evidence submitted in support of E11 extraordinary ability and E12 outstanding professor or researcher petitions. Among other revisions, this update incorporates...
Julia Preston, The Marshall Project, Sept. 8, 2023 "In the early 1990s, asylum seekers could receive work authorization as soon as they filed their claims. Fraudulent claims surged as migrants, often prompted by unscrupulous attorneys, filed for asylum just...
Tim Balk, NY Daily News, Aug. 31, 2023 "Mayor Adams on Thursday urged the federal government to “stand up” and expedite work authorizations for asylum seekers pouring into New York , continuing calls that he began a year ago as relations between...
Cyrus Mehta, Kaitlyn Box, June 19, 2023 "In our previous blog , we suggested several ways that the Biden administration could follow to allow nonimmigrant workers who have been laid off to remain in the U.S. As major tech companies continue to lay off workers...
JACOB HAMBURGER AND STEPHEN YALE-LOEHR, June 3, 2023 "With the end of the COVID-19 emergency on May 11, the Title 42 border restrictions have been officially lifted. Although the situation at the border is not the chaotic scene that many had predicted, the...
DOS, Mar. 22, 2023 "Based on INA standards and expected demand from these countries for family-sponsored and employment-based preference visas, the Department of State is no longer including a separate column covering applicants chargeable to El Salvador...
USCIS, Mar. 15, 2023 "U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services today issued policy guidance (PDF, 313.21 KB) on how we analyze an employer’s ability to pay the proffered wage for immigrant petitions in certain first, second, and third preference employment...
USCIS, Mar. 1, 2023 "Today, the Department of Homeland Security posted a Federal Register notice providing information related to the EB-5 Integrity Fund. We will use the EB-5 Integrity Fund primarily to administer the EB-5 Regional Center Program, as required...