Legal Immigration Can Help Reduce Labor Shortages
The Great Resignation has caused significant labor shortages in a lot of industries, and it looks like these shortages will continue for a while. This problem has hit the manufacturing industry...
DHS Ends Policy of Flexibility Concerning Expired List B Documents
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has announced that starting on May 1st, 2022, employers can no longer accept expired list B documents for the purposes of completing the...
USCIS Returning to Offices Starting June 4th
United States Citizenship and Immigration Services has announced that certain domestic offices will reopen and resume non-emergency public services starting June 4th, 2022. This will allow petitioners...
USCIS Issues Updated Employment Authorization Guidance for E and L Nonimmigrant Spouses
United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has provided updated guidance regarding the use of I-94 for employment authorization and what E and...
The Justice Department Settles With Home Care Provider Over Abuse of E-Verify System
The Department of Justice (DOJ) has recently announced the reaching of a settlement with a Washington state-based at-home health care provider. This settlement...
USCIS Makes Changes to Prevent Multiple H-1B Registrations
Sometimes easier isn’t better, according to critics of USCIS’s electronic registration system. These critics have complained that the system makes registrations so simple and...
USCIS Making Progress Towards Electronic Processing
The USCIS has been stating its intent to modernize by changing to an electronic filing system for almost twenty years. The system it had intended to put in place was ELIS, the Electronic Immigration...
USCIS Provides New Guidance for O-1 Visa Eligibility and Adjudication
With intense competition for many employment-based visas as well as continuing backlogs and processing delays, many employers have turned to alternatives, including the O-1 visa...
USCIS Announces Purge of Older E-Verify Records
Every year United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) purges records that are more than ten years old from the E-Verify system, and that time has come once again. The USCIS has announced...
USCIS Provides Guidance For Using Native American Tribal Documents to Complete the Form I-9
United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has recently announced that it has provided newly updated guidance for completion of the Form...