Please be advised that AILA, the American Immigration Lawyers Association, has just released the following announcement. “We are hearing from multiple sources that, on Monday or Tuesday of next week, ...

Much like Freddy from the Friday the 13th movies, old villans never completely die. That having been said, today’s 46-53 vote will table the Senate’s CIR for sometime, perhaps ever. ...

Starting July 2, USCIS will no longer allow petitioners to file their I-140′s under the premium processing program. This is expected to be a temporary measure; starting August 1 petitioners ...

Senate leadership has called for another cloture vote. This one at 10.50 AM ET today. The purpose of such a vote is to see if there is still momentum to ...

The Senate has just voted to revive CIR. The 64-35 vote provides enough cover for the Senate leadership to move ahead. The Senate will take the next few days to ...

From the NY Times: “I believe we will pass the bill, and I think we have good support among the Republican Party,” said Senator Edward M. Kennedy, from Massachusetts, who ...

HLG’s Chris Musillo just had his article, Strategically Thinking About The Retrogression of Schedule A Occupations, selected for publication in the 2007-08 AILA Annual Immigration & Nationality Law Handbook. The ...

As we suspected, Sen. Reid (D-NV), the majority leader, has agreed to recommence debate on CIR. From the NY Times, Senate Democratic and Republican leaders announced on Thursday that they ...

The Department of State (DOS) has released its July Visa Bulletin, making all categories current in the employment based system. The visa bulletin takes effect on July 1st. What does ...

Yes!!!! All of the retrogression dates are now current. This is fantastic news. The main question that our clients have been asking us is: Why did this happen? Here is ...