News Release from Jewell & Associates, PC On April 7 USCIS announced that it received approximately 233,000 H-1B petitions in the filing period that began on April 1. Today USCIS used a computer-generated random selection process (commonly known as a “lottery”) to...
News Release from Jewell & Associates, PC On December 5, 2014, USCIS posted on its website a summary of the executive actions on immigration announced by President Obama on November 20, 2014. With respect to each of the major planned initiatives, the USCIS...
News Release from Jewell & Associates, PC Yesterday the President announced his intent to reform the immigration system through executive action in ten key areas. Planned action that will be of particular interest to the business community include: Support to...
News Release from Jewell & Associates, PC The Department of Homeland Security has announced that it will publish a proposed rule that would: Allow work authorization for H-4 spouses of certain H-1B workers in the permanent residence (green card) process based on...
News Release from Jewell & Associates, PC Today USCIS announced that it received approximately 172,500 H-1B petitions in the filing period that began on April 1. On April 10 USCIS used a computer-generated random selection process (commonly known as a “lottery”)...
News Release from Jewell & Associates, PC U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced today that it has received a sufficient number of H-1B petitions to reach the statutory cap for fiscal year (FY) 2015. USCIS has also received more than 20,000...
News Release from Jewell & Associates, PC Citizens of countries participating in the Visa Waiver Program (VWP) may come to the United States as visitors for business or pleasure without first obtaining visitors’ (B-1 or B-2) visas from U.S. Consulates. They may...
News Release from Jewell & Associates, PC The U.S. Department of State recently notified J-1-sponsoring organizations that it intends to conduct field visits of companies hosting interns and trainees on J-1 (Exchange Visitor) visas. The State Department's Exchange...
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has now fully implemented the automation of Form I-94 at all air and sea ports. On entering the United States a foreign national no longer receives a paper copy of Form I-94. Instead, they must visit the CBP website at www.cbp.gov/I94, enter their personal details, and print a copy of their I-94 there. CBP has advised doing this after each entry into the U.S., because their system does not currently store data on any entry other than the most recent one. It does not appear that CBP’s eventual expansion of I-94 data retention will encompass more than five years of entries in any case.
