In a recent USCIS Stakeholders Meeting, AILA asked for clarification on how unused H-1B1s for Singaporean and Chileans are counted back. Under the Chile/Singapore Free Trade Agreement, 6,800 H-1B cases ...

The American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA) has a Business Litigation Committee (BLC) of which Michael Hammond is a member. They met this week and the hot topic of discussion was ...

In the State of the Union speech last night, President Obama voiced a priority in decreasing the unemployment rate for people who are in the U.S. The unemployment rate is ...

The Vermont Service Center recently published a set of “filing tips” for foreign nationals who have received J-1 waivers. Specifically the Service wanted to issue a reminder that only J-1 ...

While retrogression continues, healthcare workers who require a healthcare certificate need to check the expiration on their healthcare certificate. The healthcare certificates are valid for only 5 years and an ...

The Senate seat long been held by Senator Ed Kennedy, who passed away last year, is up for election is in the state of Massachusetts today. The race is between ...

We have recently heard of accounts from H-1B workers entering from the Newark and Seattle airports encountering additional questioning, and in some cases expedited removal, by the Customs and Border ...

At the annual AILA immigration conference in June, the USCIS promised that a memo would be forthcoming on the issue of H-1b. Now the USCIS has issued the memo providing ...

The Deparment of State has released the February 2010 Visa Bulletin. There is very limited change from the current month: The second preference category for all countries remained the same, ...