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COVID-19/Coronavirus Pandemic: USCIS extends field office closure until June 4

By Alka Bahal on April 24, 2020

On March 18, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services temporarily suspended in-person services at its field offices, asylum offices, and application support centers (ASCs) to help slow the spread of coronavirus

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USCIS Extends Closure to the Public until May 3, 2020

By Alka Bahal on April 2, 2020

On March 18, USCIS extended the suspension of all routine face-to-face services with applicants at all of its offices through May 3, to protect its workforce and to help mitigate…
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USCIS Issues FY2021 H-1B Cap Lottery Results

By Catherine V. Wadhwani on March 28, 2020

With lightning speed, USCIS closed the FY2021 H-1B Cap Registration Process, conducted the lottery (random selection process), and issued the lottery results.

Since yesterday, March 27, 2020, the agency has…
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Initial FY2021 H-1B Cap Lottery Registration Closed; Winners to be Notified by March 31, 2020

By Catherine V. Wadhwani on March 23, 2020

Last Friday, March 20^th at 12:00 noon US Eastern Time, USCIS closed the initial registration period for the Fiscal Year 2021 (FY2021) H-1B cap lottery. In order to be…
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Health Care Services Related to COVID-19 and USCIS’s Public Charge Rule

By Catherine V. Wadhwani on March 16, 2020

By Catherine V. Wadhwani and Robert S. Whitehill

Without fanfare, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) recently updated its website with an Alert https://www.uscis.gov/greencard/public-charge relating to its Public Charge requirements …
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FY2021 H-1B Cap Electronic Registration Now Open

By Catherine V. Wadhwani on March 2, 2020

Ready or not, it’s time to electronically register for the upcoming H-1B Cap Lottery.

The registration period began at 12:00 noon Eastern Time on Sunday, March 1, 2020 and will…
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Public Charge Rule Change Update

By Alka Bahal & Mark D. Harley on February 11, 2020

As of February 24, 2020, all applications for Adjustment of Status will be subject to the enhanced Public Charge Rule after a rule by the U.S. Supreme Court on January…
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Immigration Can Continue to Make America Great, If We Let It!

By Robert S. Whitehill on June 10, 2019

At a recent event, one of my former high school classmates who today is a distinguished Stanford University professor asked me whether there was much immigration legal work in Pittsburgh. …
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H-1B Cap Season: Important Proposed Changes

By Catherine V. Wadhwani on December 4, 2018

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has issued its long-awaited Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) to amend USCIS Regulations relating to cap-subject H-1B petitions filed under both the regular cap …
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Proposed Public Charge Rule Change

By Alka Bahal, Mark D. Harley & Fox Rothschild LLP on October 1, 2018

On Saturday, September 22, 2018, the Trump administration announced the upcoming publication of a proposed rule designed to redefine a status known as “public charge” — a category used to…
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