It is not uncommon for our clients to reach out to us and ask for guidance on how best to internally manage the immigration process for its foreign national employees. Some of our clients are just venturing down this path for the first time and...
This Department of State Visa Bulletin summarizes the availability of immigrant numbers during October 2019. <-- Back to News Updates...
Travelers in the following categories are no longer eligible to travel or be admitted to the United States under the Visa Waiver Program (VWP): - Nationals of VWP countries who have traveled to or been present in Iran, Iraq, North Korea, Sudan, Syria, Libya, Somalia and...
TrailBlazers Impact: Ordinary Women. Extraordinary Achievements. Podcast Interviews that Capture and Share Stories By, For and About Inspirational Women EP. 29- Diana Vellos Coker: Be a Voice for Those Who Can’t Speak for Themselves For the full interview, please listen here: [audio mp3="https://www.larrabee.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/diana-vellos-coker.mp3"][/audio] <-- Back to News Updates...
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...
