USCIS has issued guidance clarifying how the $100,000 fee requirement for H1-B visa petitions will be applied and explaining how businesses will submit payment.
A new Gold Card program announced by President Trump will speed up the process of gaining an exceptional ability (EB-1A) and national interest (EB-2) visa for those who pay the hefty fee required.
A proposed rule from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) would would weight H-1B visa registrations based on beneficiaries' equivalent wage levels.
Business visitors from Malawi and Zambia (and potentially other countries as well) may be required to post bonds as high as $15,000 to come to the United States.
E-Verify will no longer alert employers that current employees' work authorization documents are revoked. Instead, employers must use a new E-Verify feature to generate a status change report of their employees' authorization.
A first-of-its-kind law allowing employees to use paid sick leave to attend immigration-related proceedings could serve as a template for other states and localities to expand their own leave requirements.