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Social media knows you better than you know yourself Social media plays an essential part in most of our lives from a white collar worker, to a student, and to an immigrant. The information [...]

On Thursday, June 1st, 2017 the Trump Administration filed a request to the Supreme Court to lift the federal court rulings blocking of the March 6th executive order and travel ban, an order that [...]

On Thursday, May 25th the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit in Richmond, Virginia upheld the blocking of President Trump’s second, revised travel ban, citing that the [...]

Now that the H1-B lottery is finished and I-797C receipts notices start to go out, it is time to think about the next step: how to respond to request for evidence from USCIS. Now that the H-1b [...]

President Trump ordered an interdepartmental review on the H-1B visa program, which may affect H-1B adjudication this year. On April 18, 2017, President Trump signed an executive order aiming to [...]

Elizabeth Jamae is a U.S. immigration lawyer and partner at D’Alessio Law Group. She specializes in corporate immigration law for startups and corporations. She leads the technology [...]

Last month, United States Customs and Immigration Services announced a policy memorandum that rescinds a December 22nd, 2000 memo allowing computer programmer positions to be eligible for H-1B [...]

The Trump Administration announced a number of new initiatives to combat any supposed cases of fraud or abuse within the H-1B visa program. The Departments of Justice, Homeland Security, and [...]

USCIS announced last week that it will temporarily suspend premium processing for all H-1B visas as a result of a longstanding buildup of petitions submitted for H-1B status. “Starting April 3, [...]

The president’s promise to renegotiate the 23-year-old trade agreement could affect everything from foreign digital talent working in L.A. to the cost of popcorn in Mexican movie theaters. [...]