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June 2015 Visa Bulletin: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly

The June 2015 Visa Bulletin contains a bit of good news for persons in certain employment-based (EB) categories. However, for others, like Chinese investors, the news is mostly bad. For Filipino professionals and Mexicans and Filipinos in some of the family-based (FB) categories, the news is downright ugly. The Good The worldwide EB-3 category (professionals, skilled and […]

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EADs for H-4 Spouses

The USCIS approves applications for form I-765 Employment Authorization Documents (EADs) submitted by certain H-4 spouses of H-1B professionals. What follows is a list of answers to the most frequently asked questions about this policy: 1. Which H-4 spouses are eligible for EADs? H-4 spouses of H-1B professionals with approved I-140 visa petitions or who […]

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H-1B Cap: Congress Needs to Do Its Job

During the first week of April, the USCIS received 233,000 H-1B petitions from companies in the US seeking to employ foreign-born professional workers. This exceeds the number of H-1B petitions received last year by over 60,000. Under current law, only 85,000 of these petitions can be approved, about 36%. Most of the other 64% of […]

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Shusterman’s Immigration Update March 2015

Volume Twenty, Number Three SHUSTERMAN’S IMMIGRATION UPDATE is the Web’s most popular e-mail newsletter regarding U.S. 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 35 years of experience practicing immigration law. There will be no April 2015 […]

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H-1B Lottery Odds are Less than 50% Apply for an EB Green Card Now!

In 2014, when over 172,000 petitions were filed for 85,000 visas, immigration lawyers had the following advice for the H-1B lottery losers: Look for a cap-exempt H-1B employer; Get a TN or an E-3 visa if you are eligible; Extend your OPT if you are a STEM graduate; Go to graduate school on an F-1 […]

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Shusterman’s Immigration Update February 2015

Volume Twenty, Number Two SHUSTERMAN’S IMMIGRATION UPDATE is the Web’s most popular e-mail newsletter regarding U.S. 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 35 years of experience practicing immigration law. Published by the Law Offices of […]

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Shusterman’s Immigration Update January 2015

Volume Twenty, Number One SHUSTERMAN’S IMMIGRATION UPDATE January 2015 is the Web’s most popular e-mail newsletter regarding U.S. 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 35 years of experience practicing immigration law. Published by the Law […]

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I-Squared Bill: More H-1B Visas & Green Cards

On January 13, a bipartisan group of Senators introduced the Immigration Innovation (“I-Squared”) Act of 2015. The Act would create a much-needed overhaul of our broken legal immigration system. It would dramatically raise the H-1B cap, and would provide much-needed reforms of the employment-based preference system for green cards. It would also raise the per-country […]

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EB-3 Category: Great News in February Visa Bulletin!

Fantastic news for those in the EB-3 category in the February 2015 Visa Bulletin! Two years ago, the wait for those in the EB-3 category was almost 6 years to get a green card, even more for persons born in the Philippines (as well as China and India, which is a problem yet to be […]

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Will the H-1B Cap Be Raised this Year?

A bipartisan group of Senators lead by Orrin Hatch (R-UT) is trying to pass a bill which would raise theH-1B cap from 85,000 to 135,000. The I-Squared bill would do this by raising the general cap from 65,000 to 115,000 while leaving the master’s cap at 20,000. Does this bill stand a chance to be […]

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