February 12, 2025
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Category: Immigration

USCIS Announces FY 2026 H-1B Visa Lottery To Begin March 7

The initial registration period for the FY 2026 H-1B visa lottery will open March 7, the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services agency has announced. Employers wanting to file H-1B visa petitions on behalf of foreign worker beneficiaries for FY 2026 (October 1, 2025—September 30, 2026) must submit an electronic H-1B lottery registration between March 7 and March 24, 2025. After...
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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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April 16, 2024
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Category: Immigration

USCIS Issues Temporary Rule Extending Certain EAD Expiration Dates for 540 Days

Some holders of Employment Authorization Documents (Form I-766) will receive automatic extensions under a temporary final rule published by the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) on April 8, 2024. The automatic extensions apply to EAD holders who are awaiting approval of EAD renewals for which they filed on or after October 27, 2023, as...
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March 26, 2024
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Category: Immigration

FY 2025 H-1B Lottery Done, Increased Fees Scheduled to Go Into Effect

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) agency that administers the nation’s immigration system, closed the H1-B visa lottery for fiscal year 2025 on March 25, 2024. Beginning April 1, selected petitioners are eligible to file an H-1B cap-subject petition (Form I-129) for beneficiaries to begin working October 1, 2024. The new Form I-129 (OMB No. 1615-0009,...
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February 07, 2024
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Category: Immigration

USCIS Finalizes Rules Revamping H-1B Lottery System and Increasing Visa Fees

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has issued two new rules in its continuing effort to make the H-1B visa selection process more efficient and less susceptible to fraud. One rule revamps the registration system for the H-1B specialty occupations visa program, and the other increases visa fees for the first time since 2016. The first rule implements a new beneficiary-centric lottery proposed last October that...
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January 24, 2024
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Category: Immigration

USCIS Announces Changes to H-1B Visa Petition Process To Improve Efficiency

The Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has announced changes to the H-1B visa process that will take effect in February for the FY 2025 electronic registration season. USCIS said the changes will increase efficiency and ease collaboration for organizations and their legal representatives. The changes include the introduction of an online filing system for...
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December 14, 2023
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Category: EEOC

Government’s Latest Semi-Annual Regulatory Agenda Shows New Activity by the EEOC

This memo summarizes workplace-related regulatory priorities that the Biden Administration listed in its latest semi-annual regulatory agenda. This memo, as well as a chart prepared by our affiliated nonprofit membership association, the Center for Workplace Compliance (CWC), provide a user-friendly digest of regulatory developments that we are following. Notably, for the first time in several years, the agenda lists several new...
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November 01, 2023
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Category: Immigration

USCIS Proposes Revisions to the H-1B Visa Program

The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) component of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has issued a proposed rule to modernize the H-1B specialty occupation visa program. Its goal is to improve the program’s efficiency, provide more flexibility for both petitioners and beneficiaries, and reduce the potential for fraud. The proposal would change the registration selection process for H-1B...
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