Senate Bill Progresses05/23/13
The US Senate Judiciary Committee has finished the two week process of adding amendments to the Gang of Eight’s immigration reform bill without making changes that would drastically change the ...
June Cutoffs Released
The June State Department Visa Bulletin is out. We have broken it into sections which include this month, the last two months, and this month a year ...
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Filipino NCLEX Takers05/22/13
According to an article posted here at GMA News Online, 806 Filipino nurses took the National Council Licensure Examination (NCLEX) from January to March of 2013. The NCLEX is the US national ...
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Filipino RN Immigration05/21/13
Asian Weekly has a very interesting article here which explains the history of the immigration of Registered Nurses to the US. The article outlines four distinct waves of Filipino RN ...
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USCIS Immigrant Fee05/20/13
USCIS has announced here that it has moved the online payment of the USCIS Immigrant Fee to its Electronic Immigration System (USCIS ELIS). Customers must now pay the $165 USCIS Immigrant ...
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H-1B Receipts Finished05/20/13
USCIS is reporting that, effective May 15, 2013, all H-1B cases have been issued Receipt Notices, and the process has now begun to return H-1B petitions that were not accepted ...
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House Immigration Deal05/18/13
The political website “The Hill” is reporting here that a bipartisan group of House negotiators has reached an “agreement in principle” on comprehensive immigration reform legislation. The process of passing laws ...
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June Visa Bulletin05/14/13
The Department of State has released the June Visa Bulletin. There is no movement in the India EB2 category and only two weeks movement for India EB3. The Philippines EB3 ...
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Automation of Form I-9405/14/13
The U.S. Customs & Border Protection (CBP) has automated Form I-94 at air and sea ports of entry. The paper I-94 is no longer given to a traveller upon arrival ...
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More Senate Mark-Ups05/14/13
Today the Senate Judiciary Committee will continue its work marking-up S. 744, the Border Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Modernization Act. Today the Committee will focus on amendments related to ...
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Ominous DOS Note05/13/13
The Department of State included the following note in this month’s Visa Bulletin regarding future movement of the cut-off dates in the EB-3 category: The Employment-based Third preference category cut-off ...
