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News Flashes Image bullet icon February 01: Preparing for H-1B Cap Season in Fiscal Year 2014: How to Make the Cut and Stay Compliant
bullet icon January 03: USCIS Notice on Provisional Unlawful Presence Waivers
bullet icon January 02: U.S. Embassy in United Arab Emirates Announces New Visa Appointment System
bullet icon December 20: Two CA Residents Charged in Document Mill Case
bullet icon December 20: New USCIS Immigrant Visa Fee Effective Feb. 2013
bullet icon December 20: USCIS Offers E-Verify Employer Search Tool
bullet icon October 15: Senator Spector - The Independent with a Penchant for Immigration Reform
bullet icon October 3: Arkansas Man Sentenced in Illegal Hiring Case
bullet icon October 3: USCIS Extends TPS for Haitians
bullet icon September 20: STEM Jobs Act May Be On the Horizon
bullet icon August 17:CBP Announces Plans to Eliminate Form I-94
bullet icon 2014 Diversity Visa Program Registration Begins on October 2, 2012
bullet icon August 07: DREAMERS - Last Minute USCIS Teleconference Held August 3, 2012
bullet icon July 24: I HAVE A DREAM - Obama's Deferred Action - Should the Dream become Reality for Those Not in Proceedings? Politics could get the best of this initiative
bullet icon July 24: AILA Warning: New Telephonic Scam
bullet icon July 23: District Court Finds Operations and Financial Analyst Not a Specialty Occupation
bullet icon July 23: BALCA Finds Employer Properly Dismissed Applicants Lacking Requisite Skills
bullet icon July 20: DOL Reaches Record H-2A Back Wages Settlement
bullet icon July 20: DHS Issues Directive Announcing Deferred Action Process For Qualifying Youth
bullet icon June 13: E-2 Treaty Visas for Israel Has Become a Reality
bullet icon June 13: July 2012 Visa Bulletin
bullet icon June 13: DOL Statistics for FY 2012
bullet icon June 13: FY 2013 H-1B Cap Reached
bullet icon May 23: List of STEM Degree Programs Expanded
bullet icon May 22: FY2013 H-1B Cap Count (Updated 5/14/12)
bullet icon April 27: Challenging H-2B Rules: Greenberg Traurig Obtains a Preliminary Injunction in Lawsuit Challenging Unfair H-2B Administrative Rules Set to Become Effective on April 27, 2012
bullet icon April 27: U.S. Supreme Court Hears Oral Arguments on Arizona Immigration Law SB 1070
bullet icon April 16: May 2012 Visa Bulletin Brings Significant Retrogression for EB2 China and India
bullet icon April 6: H1B Cap: First numbers reported show increase in demand
bullet icon April 5: USCIS Proposes Process Change for Certain Waivers of Inadmissibility
bullet icon March 5: Embassy of the United States, China - Important Changes
bullet icon February 28: Visa Interview Wait Times Drop in Brazil
bullet icon February 27: U.S. Embassy Lisbon No Longer Processing Immigrant or Diversity Visas As of March 1, 2012
bullet icon February 24: Entrepreneurs in Residence (EIR) Summit
bullet icon February 24: New Report Reflects Incredibly High Denial Rates for L-1 and H-1B Petitions at U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services
bullet icon February 24: U.S. Embassy in Damascus, Syria Suspends Operations
bullet icon February 24: March 2012 Visa Bulletin

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