June 17, 2025
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Category: Immigration

Trump Administration Travel Ban: Impact on Employers

A White House proclamation imposing full and partial entry bans for nationals from 19 countries could disrupt American employers’ hiring and retention of foreign workers. The proclamation took effect June 9. Full entry bans apply to 12 countries, and partial restrictions apply to seven countries. The full bans apply to Afghanistan, Chad, Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Haiti, Iran, Libya,...
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June 02, 2025
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Category: Immigration

FY 2026 H-1B Visa Lottery Sees Decrease in Registrations

The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services reported a decrease in registrations for the fiscal year 2026 H-1B lottery compared with last year, continuing a trend observed in the FY 2025 lottery. Eligible registrations dropped significantly from 758,994 in FY 2024 to 470,342 in FY 2025 to 343,981 in FY 2026. This year marks the lowest number of registrations since the first...
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May 27, 2025
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Category: Featured

USCIS Alerts Employers of an E-Verify System Error Impacting Mismatch Cases

A technical glitch in the E-Verify system may require some employers to create a new E-Verify case for employees who received a final nonconfirmation. U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services alerted employers on May 19 that a system error caused some Social Security Administration (SSA) tentative nonconfirmation (mismatch) cases that were referred between April 9 and May 5 to incorrectly receive a final...
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January 02, 2025
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Category: Immigration

DHS Issues Another Rule Seeking To Modernize the H-1B Visa Program

The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) component of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has published a second final rule aimed at modernizing the H-1B specialty occupation visa program. The “Modernizing H-1B Requirements” final rule goes into effect January 17, 2025. In February 2024, USCIS published the first part of its H-1B modernization rule, which implemented a new lottery process to reduce fraud....
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December 11, 2024
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Category: Discrimination and Harassment

DOJ Releases Fact Sheet on Anti-Discrimination Rights of Green Card Holders

The Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division, Immigrant and Employee Rights Section, has issued a Fact Sheet that outlines workplace discrimination protections for permanent residents (often called “green card holders”). IER’s two-page Fact Sheet, published in November, is entitled “Lawful Permanent Residents’ Employment Rights Under the Immigration and Nationality Act.” It delineates protections under the INA in three areas: hiring, firing,...
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October 02, 2024
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Category: Immigration

USCIS Provides Automatic 36-Month Extension for Green Card Renewals

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) is lengthening the automatic extension period of Permanent Resident Cards (“Green Cards”) to 36 months for lawful permanent residents who file a timely application for renewal (Form I-90). An employee will be able to use an expired Green Card and a Form I-90 receipt notice to verify continued employment authorization on the Form I-9....
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August 19, 2024
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Category: Immigration

USCIS Conducts Second H-1B Registration Lottery

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has conducted a second H-1B visa registration lottery to generate enough petitions to fill this year’s visa cap allotment. Employers selected in the second lottery should have received notice from USCIS that they are now eligible to file an H-1B petition for the beneficiary named in the selected registration. CWC members that registered in...
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August 12, 2024
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Category: Immigration

USCIS Quietly Updates I-9 Form With New Expiration Date

The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services agency has issued an updated version of the Form I-9 with a new expiration date of May 31, 2027. USCIS administers the employment eligibility verification requirements of the 1986 Immigration Reform and Control Act (IRCA). USCIS has updated the Form I-9, Employment Eligibility Verification, with a new expiration date of May 31, 2027. The previous version...
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July 31, 2024
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Category: Discrimination and Harassment

Ninth Circuit Rules That §1981 Prohibits Hiring Discrimination Based on U.S. Citizenship Status

The Civil Rights Act of 1866—commonly referred to as Section 1981—not only protects against intentional race discrimination but also against hiring discrimination based on U.S. citizenship, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit held June 27, 2024, in Rajaram v. Meta Platforms. Section 1981 provides that “all persons” within U.S. jurisdiction “shall have the same right … to...
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July 02, 2024
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Category: Agency Enforcement

Staffing Firm Agrees To Pay Over $500,000 To Settle Citizenship Discrimination Allegations

The U.S. Justice Department has entered into a settlement agreement worth more than half a million dollars to end an immigrant bias investigation of a staffing agency. The $557,500 settlement resolves allegations that the staffing firm violated the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) by using job postings that discouraged applications from non-U.S. citizens who were authorized to work in the United States....
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