Immigration Blog

DOS has issued a notice calling for comments from the public about proposed revisions to nonimmigrant visa application forms – Form DS-160 and DS-156. The proposal from DOS includes adding several additional questions in the forms, seeking additional information, including: information about the social media accounts used by them in the past five year period. […]

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USCIS has announced the Adjustment of Status Filing Charts for May 2018, providing information on which Green Card applicants can file their Form I-485, Application to Register Permanent Residence or Adjust Status with USCIS in May 2018. According to the May 2018 Adjustment of Status Filing Charts, applicants under employment-based visa preference categories must use […]

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USCIS has completed the H1B lottery to select enough petitions to meet the annual H1B Cap of 65,000 under the general category, and 20,000 under the U.S. advanced degree exemption category (popularly known as the “H1B Masters Cap”). H1B Visa 2018 Lottery Highlights USCIS received 190,098 H1B petitions [i.e. 8,902 petitions less than last year] […]

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The U.S. Department of State Visa Bulletin May 2018 shows marginal advancement in EB-2 China and EB-3 India in the Application Final Action Dates chart. EB-2 India also advanced in the Dates for Filing Applications chart for the employment-based visa preference categories. USCIS is yet to announce which chart may be used in May 2018 […]

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USCIS has announced that the FY 2019 Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI)-Only Transitional Worker (CW-1) program cap has reached. The FY 2019 cap for CW-1 visas is 4,999. USCIS will conduct a lottery to randomly select CW-1 petitions received between April 2, 2018 and April 13, 2018. Petitions received after April 13 will […]

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