Show Me the Money: What the Trump administration’s budget and spending priorities reveal to employers
May 25, 2017 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM EDT Webinar Our Employment and Labor team marked the passage of President […]
Immigration
New H-1Bs for 2018 are gone
US employer demand once again greater than limited supply United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) once again […]
Travel ban executive order – the saga continues
The US Departments of State and Homeland Security both issued statements on February 6, 2017, confirming that the government has […]
H-1B blast off countdown 2017
T minus 59 days. The countdown has begun. The date is coming. It will be here soon. It is the biggest […]
US green card availability to increase beginning October 1
Effective October 1, 2016, green cards will become more readily available for most people immigrating to the United States on […]
Byron Burger: A cautionary tale?
Popular UK “posh” burger chain Byron Burger has been at the center of a media flurry over the past week […]
H-1B blast off countdown 2016
T minus 72 days. The countdown has begun. The date is coming. It will be here soon. It is the biggest […]
Faster entry into the UK for Australian, Canadian, Japanese, New Zealand and American nationals: Registered Travellers Scheme
After the success of the Registered Travellers Scheme pilot, the scheme has now been rolled out permanently. The scheme allows […]
EB-5 China backlog
The United States State Department announced in the May 2015 Visa Bulletin that conditional resident status based on the EB-5 […]
USCIS received 233,000 FY 2016 H-1Bs: 148,000 more than the maximum quota
The US Citizenship and Immigration Services agency (USCIS) announced that the agency received nearly 233,000 new H-1Bs subject to the […]
H-1B update for FY 2016 new petitions subject to quota
On April 7, 2015, the US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced that the agency received more H-1B petitions subject […]
Much ado about nothing
On March 24, 2015, the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) Office of the Inspector General (OIG) issued a report critical […]