For the upcoming FY 2022 H-1B cap season, USCIS will continue its random, computerized H-1B cap lottery selection, as the agency has delayed to December 31 the effective date of a regulation that would replace it with a process that allo

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) today announced a Federal Register notice extending Temporary Protected Status (TPS) and the validity of TPS-related documentation for beneficiaries under the TPS designations for El Salvador, Ha

Judge Reggie B. Walton of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia has issued a summary judgment order upholding the Department of Homeland Security’s post-graduate Optional Practical Training (OPT) programs.

A federal district court in California has set aside two new immigration regulations that were promulgated on a fast track by the Departments of Labor (DOL) and Homeland Security (DHS) in early October.

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The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals has put the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) public charge rule back in effect by placing an administrative stay on a November 2 lower court ruling blocking the rule.

Today USCIS announced that it will increase premium processing fees beginning on Monday, October 19, 2020, as included in the Continuing Appropriations Act, 2021 and Other Extensions Act, which was signed into law on September 30, 2020. 

A new Department of Labor regulation, which took effect October 8, significantly lifts prevailing wages for the H-1B, E-3, H-1B1 and PERM programs.

On October 1, 2020, a Federal Court in California granted a preliminary injunction barring the Department of Homeland Security and the Department of State (US Embassies and Consulates abroad) to refuse processing of all H, J & L visa

On September 4, 2020, a D.C. federal judge on Friday temporarily barred the Trump administration from applying its visa ban to foreign citizens who won green cards in the Diversity Visa lottery, finding that the U.S.