Carl Shusterman Immigration Lawyer Blog

Our Country’s Asylum Laws Must be Respected

 Our asylum laws authorize the Attorney General to grant asylum if an applicant is unable or unwilling to return to her country of origin because she has suffered past persecution or has a well-founded fear of future persecution on account of political opinion, race, religion, nationality or membership in a particular social group. This commitment […]

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H-1B Cap & Lotteries
April Showers, But No May Flowers

The H-1B cap and the H-1B lotteries will remain largely the same this year as in prior years. The only significant change will be that the order of the 2 lotteries will be reversed. The filing season for cap-subject H-1B petitions will run from April 1 to April 5. In 2018, USCIS received just […]

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Get Rid of Per-Country Quotas and
Increase Merit-Based Immigration

    The Fairness for High-Skilled Immigrants Act of 2019 (H.R. 1044) would eliminate per-country quotas for employment-based immigration and more than double per-country quotas for family-based immigration. While per-country quotas are unfair and counter-productive, if they were simply and swiftly eliminated without doing more, a new host of problems would arise.   Why Getting […]

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New I-539 Will Become Mandatory on March 22, 2019

On March 8, the USCIS posted a new version of form I-539 online for persons seeking to extend or change their status. Although the current form I-539 can be used until March 21, after that the USCIS will accept only the new form. In addition, a new I-539A supplement will be required. Each family member […]

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Shusterman’s Immigration Update March 2019

Volume Twenty Four, Number Three SHUSTERMAN’S IMMIGRATION UPDATE is the Web’s most popular e-mail newsletter regarding US immigration laws and procedures with over 60,000 subscribers located in more than 150 countries. It is written by a former INS Trial Attorney (1976-82) with over 40 years of experience practicing immigration law. Published by the Law Offices […]

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H-1B Visa Lottery Rule Issued – What You Need to Know

On January 31, 2019, the USCIS issued a regulation regarding the cap-subject H-1B visa lottery process. In the 30-day comment period which ended on January 2, the agency received over 800 comments about the proposed regulations.  The USCIS dismissed critical comments including those which stated that the portion of the regulation which reverses the order […]

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Shusterman’s Immigration Update February 2019

Volume Twenty Four, Number Two SHUSTERMAN’S IMMIGRATION UPDATE is the Web’s most popular e-mail newsletter regarding US immigration laws and procedures with over 40,000 subscribers located in more than 150 countries. It is written by a former INS Trial Attorney (1976-82) with over 40 years of experience practicing immigration law. Published by the Law Offices […]

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The Government Shutdown is Over, but the Clock is Ticking

On January 25, Congress passed and the President signed, legislation to end the government shutdown until February 15. No funds for a border wall were included in the bill. Negotiations in Congress for avoiding another government shutdown will be intense. I have a few suggestions for fixing our current broken legal immigration system, so keep […]

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Immigration Judge Gordon was a Supermensch

Last week, retired Immigration Judge Nathan “Nate” Gordon passed away.  At his funeral, dozens of immigration attorneys, judges and others shared their stories of this wonderful man. Judge Gordon changed many people’s lives in a very positive way. I have a lot of stories about Judge Gordon. Let me share one of them with you. […]

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Shusterman’s Immigration Update January 2019

Volume Twenty Four, Number One SHUSTERMAN’S IMMIGRATION UPDATE is the Web’s most popular e-mail newsletter regarding US immigration laws and procedures with over 60,000 subscribers located in more than 150 countries. It is written by a former INS Trial Attorney (1976-82) with over 40 years of experience practicing immigration law. Published by the Law Offices […]

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