Many times our Office receive calls from individual athletes asking if they need a visa to compete in a tournament or competition here in the U.S. These are not athletes on a team sport, they are athletes who compete in individual sports such as: surfing, golf, tennis, bass fishing, running, archery, and the like. A […]
Learn MoreThe farm Workforce Modernization Act of 2019, or H.R. 5038, aims to modernize the H2A system for foreign national farmworkers here in the U.S. The bill contains provisions related to alien farmworkers, including provisions establishing a certified agricultural worker (CAW) status and changing the H-2A temporary worker program. The Department of Homeland Security may grant […]
Learn MoreJ-1 Visa Exchange Visitor Program By Angela Filippi (Law Clerk) If you are enrolled in a college or university, or you are a graduate, you may be eligible for a J-1 Visa. The J-1 visa gives you the opportunity to intern or get training in the US, for a U.S. company, for a certain period of […]
Learn MoreOn September 20, 2019, the Department of Labor issued a final rule in the Federal Register modernizing recruitment requirements for the H-2A program. This rule took effect on October 21, 2019. The final rule rescinded the requirement found in 20 CFR 655.151 for employers to place print advertisements serving the intended area of employment, and the content […]
Learn MoreOptions for F-1 Students Who Have Fallen Out of Status F-1 nonimmigrant visas are used by many to enter and study in the United States. However, traversing immigration law and the school’s admission system isn’t always easy and sometimes results in the student falling out of status. However, if this happens, USCIS makes it possible for the […]
Learn MoreTreaty Termination Ends Certain Visa Eligibility for Iranian Nationals USCIS today announced that, due to the Oct. 3, 2018, termination of the 1955 Treaty of Amity, Economic Relations, and Consular Rights with Iran, Iranian nationals are no longer eligible for E-1 treaty trader and E-2 treaty investor changes or extensions of status based on the treaty. The E-1 and E-2 […]
Learn MoreE-2 visa category is available to citizens and nationals of Israel as of May 1, 2019. All Israeli companies seeking E-visas for their owners or employees must apply at the Branch Office in Tel Aviv and establish that the trading enterprise or investment meets the requirements. The company and applicant have the burden of demonstrating they meet the requirements for Treaty […]
Learn MoreU.S. DEPARTMENT OF LABOR INVESTIGATION FINDS TENNESSEE LANDSCAPING COMPANY VIOLATED H-2B VISA PROGRAM REQUIREMENTS ROCKVALE, TN – After an investigation by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division (WHD), Outdoors Unlimited Inc. – a landscaping company based in Rockvale, Tennessee – will pay $52,000 in back wages to 21 employees for violating labor provisions of the H-2B visa program. […]
Learn MoreToday, the Department of Homeland Security announced that it will take necessary anti-fraud and abuse measures to protect the integrity of the H-2B visa program and also make available 35,000 supplemental H-2B temporary nonagricultural worker visas for the second half of fiscal year (FY) 2020. The allocation also comes with new conditions to protect American workers, provide relief to seasonal employers […]
Learn MoreThe U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) recently announced that it intends to make available 35,000 supplemental H-2B temporary non-agricultural worker visas for the second half of fiscal year (FY) 2020, and that of these 35,000 visas, 20,000 would be made available for employment start dates beginning April 1, 2020, and 15,000 would be made […]
Learn MoreIs USCIS automatically extending filing deadline and nonimmigrant visas? Nurses and health practitioners are working around the clock to battle the covid-19 virus and to care for our sick here in the U.S. Many of these nurses and health practitioners are foreign nationals working in the U.S. with non immigrant visas. If these foreign nationals find […]
Learn MoreThe Migration Policy Institute published a graph based on the 2015 Census Bureau breaking down the percentage of immigrant workers in the health industry. Nationally, immigrants account for over 16% of all healthcare workers. This includes 36% of doctors and over 29% of registered nurses in New York, which has been hit the hardest by COVID-19. Over […]
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