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Quebec’s Immigrant Investor Program (QIIP) will reopen on January 5, 2015.

The Ontario Immigrant Nominee Program (OINP) announced that it has reached its limit of 2,500 applications for the base stream.

The 2016 U.S. election brought changes that were predicted by few. Now the future of U.S. immigration will be left to unpredictable mechanics of U.S. policy...

2017 was a challenging year for immigration petitioners and beneficiaries. The Trump administration took incremental steps to change the U.S.'s immigration policies.

February 8, 2017- The Executive Order issued by the Trump Administration prohibiting certain nationals from entering the U.S. on their previously valid visas impacted many of our clients.

This week, USCIS issued a new Form I-9 (edition date: 7/17/2017) that all employers must begin using for new-hire verifications starting on or after Monday, September 18, 2017.

On June 17, 2024, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced the creation of Keeping Families Together, a process by which certain noncitizen spouses and noncitizen stepchildren of U.S. citizens may request parole in place.

Consistent with our advisory from late August, as of today, September 11, 2018, USCIS will no longer accept Premium Processing for H-1B Petitions unless said Petitions are:

As of October 19, 2023, Israeli Citizens and Nationals are now eligible for visa-free travel to the United States through the use of an Israeli Visa Waiver. In expedited response to the October 7th

A bipartisan bill proposing major reforms to the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) is gaining traction in Congress. If signed into law, H.R. 392, or "The Fairness for High-Skilled Immigrants Act...

On January 22, 2018, Senior Associate Matthew Galati was quoted in "E-Verify Loses Reauthorization Amid Government Shutdown,'" printed in Bloomberg ​BNA (Paywall). Published during the three-day lapse in appropriations and reauthorization of several programs, Matt opined on the struggles employers faced earlier this week.

Bloomberg Politics is reporting that legislation that would provide needed H-1B cap relief to a system perennially oversubscribed will be soon be introduced by Utah GOP Senator Orrin Hatch.

A senior administration official told Fox News yesterday that President Trump is expected to announce the end of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program as early as today.

On Thursday, November 7, 2024, Trump-appointed District Court Judge J. Campbell Barker struck down the Biden Administration's "Keeping Families Together" parole-in-place program.

On November 6, 2017, nearly one month after suspending nonimmigrant visa services at the U.S. Embassy in Ankara and the U.S. Consulates in Istanbul and Adana due to the arrest of a U.S. Consular Employee in Istanbul, the U.S. Mission in Turkey announced the "limited resumption of visa services in Turkey."

The results from the U.S. presidential election are in, and Donald Trump has eked out an electoral college victory that will send him to the White House.

February 21, 2018 - Today, the Department of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) invited applicants with a Comprehensive Ranking System (CRS) score of 442 to apply for Canadian permanent residence.