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The E visa category allows foreign nationals to come to the United States pursuant to a treaty between their home country and the United States and engage in activities as an E-1 treaty trader, as an E-2 treaty investor, or as an executive, supervisory, or essential employee of a company that is a treaty trader […]
Not many people are aware of this, but there is an annual visa lottery held by the Department of State formally called the Diversity Immigrant Visa Program. Sometimes this lottery is also referred to as the Green Card Lottery because “lottery winners” have a direct path to a Permanent Resident Card, i.e., a green card. […]
The goal of this post is to provide some basic information to enable you to better understand the U.S. Department of State’s monthly Visa Bulletin with respect an employment-based immigrant visa petition. It is not a substitute for an attorney. If you need additional information and/or are considering retaining an attorney to help you with […]
As of yesterday, USCIS announced that it had returned all of the unselected cap-subject H-1B petitions submitted for FY2016. This means that of the roughly 233,000 petitions that were filed, after the 20,000 advanced degree cap petitions and 65,000 general category petitions were selected, the remaining 148,000 unselected petitions should have now been returned to […]
Yesterday, USCIS announced new filing guidance for some H-4 dependent spouses desiring employment authorization. Per USCIS, the guidance is only applicable to certain H-4 dependent spouses of H-1B visa holders: H-4 dependent spouses may apply for employment authorization if the H-1B nonimmigrant: Is the principal beneficiary of an approved Form I-140, Immigrant Petition for Alien […]
