The White House provided a fact sheet detailing new DHS actions intended to attract and maintain STEM talent in the US. These include DHS policy manual updates on O-1 visas, creation of the Early Career STEM Research Initiative, changes to SEVP, USCIS policy manual updates, and more.
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USCIS Proporciona Guías Aclaratorias para Peticiones O-1 Centradas en Personas en los Campos STEM
USCIS ha publicado una guía de política para clarificar cómo determina la elegibilidad de los no inmigrantes O-1A de habilidades extraordinarias, con un enfoque en las personas en los campos de ciencias, tecnología, ingeniería o matemáticas (STEM). Esta nueva actualización también clarifica cómo USCIS evalúa la evidencia que se puede presentar en respaldo a...
USCIS provides guidance on the use of NIW’s for STEM Graduates and Entrepreneurs
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services is updating the USCIS Policy Manual guidance on adjudicating national interest waiver requests, including special considerations for persons with advanced degrees in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) fields and entrepreneurs. USCIS is now clarifying how the national interest waiver can be used by STEM graduates and entrepreneurs, as...
Applicants Previously Refused under Presidential Proclamations 9645 and 9983 exempt from immigrant visa fee
On January 20, 2021, the President issued Presidential Proclamation 10141, titled “Ending Discriminatory Bans on Entry to the United States.” This Proclamation revoked Presidential Proclamations (P.P.) 9645 and 9983, which had suspended entry into the United States of certain nationals, based on visa type, from Burma, Eritrea, Iran, Kyrgyzstan, Libya, Nigeria, North Korea,...
Hora de preparar-se para a temporada do sorteio limitado do H-1B
Os vistos de trabalho profissional e de ocupação de especialidade de não-imigrante H-1B permitem que estrangeiros adquiram vistos de trabalho temporário nos EUA com base em um diploma de bacharel ou equivalente de uma instituição dos EUA. Estes estão entre os vistos mais procurados por não-imigrantes porque são limitados apenas a indivíduos em áreas...
PGWPP – ELIGIBILITY AND EXCEPTIONS
On January 10, 2022, Government of Canada updated document requirements for the Post-Graduation Work Permit Program (PGWPP). This Program allow students who have graduated from eligible Canadian Designated Learning Institutions (DLIs) to obtain an open work permit and gain valuable Canadian work experience. Skilled Canadian work experience in National Occupational Classification (NOC) skill type...
ABCs OF H-1Bs (THIS IS PART III OF AN VIII PART SERIES): WHAT H-1B EMPLOYERS NEED TO KNOW ABOUT THE LCA TO AVOID POTENTIAL DOL COMPLIANCE PITFALLS.
The H-1B visa program permits a United States employer (“employer”) to temporarily employ nonimmigrants to fill specialized jobs in the United States. The Immigration and Nationality Act (the “INA” or the “Act”) requires that an employer pay an H-1B worker the higher of the actual wage or the local prevailing wage, in order to...
અમેરિકામાં હેલ્થ કેર માટે ઇમિગ્રેશનની ઊભી થયેલી તકો
અમેરિકામાં હેલ્થ કેર માટે કર્મચારીઓની શોર્ટેજ ઊભી થયેલી છે ત્યારે આ ક્ષેત્રમાં અમેરિકામાં ઇમિગ્રેશન માટેની ઊભી થયેલી તકો માટે ઘણા વિચારી રહ્યા છે. અમેરિકામાં કાયદેસરની વસાહત માટે ઘણા વિકલ્પો છે, તેમાં આરોગ્ય ક્ષેત્રના કર્મચારીઓ માટે સૌથી સરળ ઉપાય નોકરી આધારિત વીઝાનો છે. તમે આરોગ્ય ક્ષેત્રના હો તો કઈ રીતે વીઝા મેળવી શકો છો તે...
Now is the Time to Prepare for the H-1B Cap Season
The H-1B nonimmigrant professional and specialty occupation work visas allow foreign nationals to acquire temporary work visas in the US based on a bachelor’s or equivalent degree from a US institution. These are among the most in-demand visas for non-immigrants because they are only limited to individuals in specialized fields. The H-1B employment visa...
USCIS Provides Clarifying Guidance on O-1 Nonimmigrants in Arts vs. Motion Picture and Television
USCIS announced clarifying guidance on how we determine whether an O-1B beneficiary will be evaluated as a person of extraordinary ability in the arts or as a person of extraordinary achievement in the motion picture or television industry when a case has elements of both.
Individuals of extraordinary ability in the arts or extraordinary achievement...