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U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has announced that within the first five business days of April 2009, USCIS received almost half the petitions needed to meet the FY2010 cap of 60,000 and has received just short of the 20,000 needed to reach the master’s cap.

As our prior Alerts have informed you, in 2007 the Social Security Administration (SSA) submitted proposed regulations that would increase employers’ obligations upon receipt of a “No-Match” letter (a letter sent by SSA to an employer to report that an employee’s Social Security Number (SSN) does not match the name provided).

On February 4, 2008, Michael Aytes, Associate Director of Domestic Operations for U.S. Citizen and Immigration Services (USCIS), issued an internal memo to USCIS Field Leadership regarding the process by which approvable cases of various types are adjudicated or not adjudicated based on pending FBI name checks.

US Customs and Border Protection announced the expansion of the Mobile Passport Control Program to San Francisco International Airport.

A reminder that the revised Form I-9 must now be used by all U.S. employers for new hires.

The Immigration Attorneys of Mintz Levin are closely watching this space and will post updates as we receive them.

United States Citizenship and Immigration Services will begin accepting cap-subject H-1B petitions on April 1, 2015, for start dates of October 1, 2015 or later.

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has announced that as of today, October 3, 2017, it has resumed the premium processing option for all H-1B petitions including for the conversion of pending petitions.

With an estimated 148,000 petitions rejected from this year's H-1B cap lottery, employers are struggling to come up with creative options to secure the talent they need to conduct business in the US.

The Supreme Court will hear the Obama administration's appeal of the 5th Circuit Court's decision to uphold the nationwide injunction of the expansion of Deferred Action for Children...

Join John Quill, Bill Coffman, and Maryanne Kline of Mintz's Immigration Section for a timely discussion on the newly published H-1B registration rule introducing a weighted lottery based on skill and wage level.

On Thursday, September 7, 2017, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals let stand the Hawaii District Court temporary injunction against the Trump administration's revised travel ban.

Today the Trump administration rescinded the DACA program, which allowed for deferred deportation or removal action against certain people who came to the U.S. as children and also provided eligibility for work authorization.

In a welcome move that acknowledges the hardships caused by the government shutdown, United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has advised that if an H-1B petitioner submits evidence establishing that the primary reason for failing to timely file an extension of stay or change of status request was due to the government shutdown, USCIS will consider the government shutdown as an extraordinary circumstance and excuse the late filing, provided that the petitioner meets all other a

On August 31, 2018, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) issued a final rule increasing the premium processing filing fee for all eligible applications postmarked on or after October 1, 2018.

This decrease in the total number of submissions does increase the chances of selection out of the quota compared to recent years.

USCIS posted updates on the H-1B registration process to its registration portal on March 26 and 27, 2022.

USCIS posted updates on the H-1B registration process to its registration portal between March 25, 2023, and today, March 27, 2023. As expected, USCIS has received more electronic H-1B cap registrations...