LARRABEE ALBI COKER LLP Welcomes Attorney GRACE ZIMMERMAN OF COUNSEL Some of you will remember Grace as an early partner of the firm, which evolved from an immigration practice initially established by Attorney Peter Larrabee in 1981. The immigration practice broke away from Gray Cary Ware...
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services has advised that employers should continue to use the current version of Form I-9, bearing a revision date of July 17, 2017, even after the form expiration date of August 31, 2019 has passed. The current version of the form...
Visa Bulletin Update - Employment-Based Third Preference (EB-3) Immediately Unavailable Through End of Fiscal Year 2019 Each month, the U.S. Department of State publishes its Visa Bulletin, which lists dates of immigrant visa availability based on priority date, visa category, and country of nationality. The purpose...
Fausta Albi and Diana Vellos Coker have been selected by their peers for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America® 2020 in the field of Immigration Law. Corporate Counsel magazine has called Best Lawyers "the most respected referral list of attorneys in practice." Both partners...
On July 24, 2019, USCIS published the much anticipated final regulation overhauling the EB-5 Immigrant Investor Program. This program was created by Congress in 1990 to promote employment creation in the United States. Under the EB-5 program, foreign nationals are able to apply for permanent...
The USCIS issued the below press release, indicating that as of today they will accept premium processing requests for all H-1B Cap-Subject petitions. A request for premium processing may now be added to an H-1B Cap-Subject petition pending adjudication with USCIS. The USCIS filing fee...
The U.S. Department of State (DOS) has updated its DS-160 nonimmigrant visa application and DS-260 immigrant visa application to include a question on social media identifiers. The item requires applicants to use a drop-down list to indicate the social media platforms they have used during...
USCIS issued the following Press Release: May 17, 2019- USCIS has completed data entry for all fiscal year 2020 H-1B cap-subject petitions selected in our computer-generated random selection process, including those selected under the U.S. advanced degree exemption. As in previous years, we will now begin...
Caps reached USCIS received 201,011 H-1B petitions during the filing period, which began April 1, including petitions filed for the advanced degree exemption. USCIS announced on April 5 that it had received enough petitions to reach the congressionally mandated H-1B regular cap of 65,000. For a...
What's new? U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) resumed premium processing on Tuesday, March 12 for all H-1B petitions. Today USCIS announced exceptions for FY2020 Cap-Subject H-1B petitions (petitions which will be filed beginning April 1, 2019). Per USCIS, premium processing will be offered in two phases...
