By: Michael Phulwani, Esq., David H. Nachman, Esq. and Rabindra K. Singh, Esq.
Introduction.
Acknowledging the need of the U.S. businesses to hire and retain highly-skilled foreign-born U.S. workers, especially from India and China, who remain stuck with the same employer for years in order to obtain an employment-based green card, the...
This past week, a Federal District Court decided Washington Alliance of Technology Workers v. DHS. The lawsuit sought to prevent foreign students from having an opportunity to gain practical experience in the U.S. following their full-time course of study. The Court invalidated a 2008 U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) rule which permits an...
We are not half-way through the first year of the implementation of a revolutionary selection system initiated by Citizenship and Immigration Canada. In sum, the Express Entry system revolves around an online application within the several federal programs for foreign workers, with the ultimate goal of strongly facilitating nominee...
The way U.S. Immigration and Nationality Law professionals phrase things is HUGELY important. “Words are like eggs dropped from great heights; you can no more call them back than ignore the mess they leave when they fall.” ― Jodi Picoult, Salem Falls
This past week, amidst the anti-immigrant fervor being drummed up by Presidential...
On almost a daily basis we receive calls from clients and potential clients who ask us the difference between "Changing Status in the U.S." and "Adjusting Status in the U.S." The words sound the same but the procedures are quite different. When one "Changes...
As discussed in our recently co-authored Article, H-1B AMENDMENTS POST-SIMEIO SOLUTIONS: WHY CIS SHOULD CONSIDER TAKING OFF THE RETROACTIVITY ASPECT FROM THE “DRAFT” GUIDANCE, United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) in its revised Final Guidance, that came out on July 21, 2015,...
By: Michael Phulwani, Esq., David H. Nachman, Esq. and Rabindra K. Singh, Esq.
United States and Citizenship Services (CIS), agreeing with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit decision in Shalom Pentecostal Church v. Acting Secretary DUS[1] that its 2008 regulation was ultra vires,...
