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USCIS has announced that the registration period for the upcoming Fiscal Year (FY) 2022 H-1B quota will start at 12 p.m. EST on Tuesday, March 9, 2021 and run through 12 p.m. EST on Thursday, March 25, 2021.
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USCIS Announces Timeline for the Fiscal Year 2020 H-1B Cap Registration Process
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USCIS Delays Wage-Based H-1B Selection Rule for Upcoming Fiscal Year 2022 H-1B Cap Lottery
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Link: https://www.uscis.gov/
news/alerts/dhs-delays- effective-date-of-h-1b- selection-final-rule Pasricha & PatelOn January 7, 2021, the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service had announced new H-1B selection final rule which would have replaced the random lottery selection process with a system that allocated H-1B visa numbers based on the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Employment Statistics (OES) four-level wage system. The end result would have given priority in the H-1B selection process to H-1B applicants whose offered wage falls within the highest wage level for their occupation and geographic area. It would have allowed U.S. companies who could afford high salaries to take up most of the slots in the H-1B quota system, and it would have prevented small and medium sized U.S. companies from being able to participate in the H-1B quota selection process on a level playing field.
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USCIS Sets the February 2021 Adjustment of Status Filing Charts For the Visa Bulletin
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After the U.S. Department of State published the February 2021 visa bulletin, the USCIS has followed up and announced that it will continue to follow the Dates for Filing for Family-Sponsored Adjustment of Status Applications for the February 2021 Visa Bulletin.
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Biden Administration Takes Aim at Immigration Issue Via Executive Actions & Proposing Ambitious Immigration Reform Bill
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Link: https://edition.cnn.com/2021/01/20/politics/immigration-daca-border-wall-biden-agenda/index.html
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Newly sworn-in President Biden has taken steps to unwind various Trump-era Executive Orders that impact immigration issues, while also promising to introduce an ambitious and comprehensive immigration legislation in the coming days.
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CDC Requires Negative COVID-19 Test Results for All Air Passengers Entering the United States
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Link: https://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2021/s0112-negative-covid-19-air-passengers.html
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Starting on Tuesday, January 26, 2021, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (the CDC) will require all air passengers entering the United States to show proof of negative COVID-19 test. The CDC is imposing this requirement in order to prevent the further spread of COVID-19 virus in the United States.
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USCIS to Replace Sticker That Extends Validity of Green Cards
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Link: https://www.uscis.gov/news/alerts/uscis-to-replace-sticker-that-extends-validity-of-green-cards
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USCIS has announced that beginning in January 2021, it will no longer issue the sticker that is usually affixed to the back of the lawful permanent resident (LPRs) expiring I-551 card (‘green cards’) to extend the validity of the card, after the filing of the Form I-90 application to replace permanent resident card.
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USCIS Modifies H-1B Selection Process to Prioritize Higher Wage Offers
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Link: https://www.uscis.gov/news/news-releases/uscis-modifies-h-1b-selection-process-to-prioritize-wages
Pasricha & Patel
The USCIS has announced that it is publishing a final rule that would change the previous H-1B cap lottery selection process by replacing the previous random drawing of H-1B cap petitions and instead assign H-1B visa numbers based on the Department of Labor’s Occupational Employment Statistics (OES) wage-tier level system.
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White House Proclamation Extends Previous Visa Suspensions Until March 31, 2021
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Link: https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/proclamation-suspension-entry-immigrants-nonimmigrants-continue-present-risk-united-states-labor-market/
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Citing the need to continue to protect the U.S. labor workforce during the coronavirus pandemic outbreak, the Trump Administration has announced that it has extended the suspension of visa issuances for various immigrant and nonimmigrant visas at least through March 31, 2021.
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USCIS Sets the January 2021 Adjustment of Status Filing Charts For the Visa Bulletin
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With the publication of the January 2021 visa bulletin by the U.S. Department of State, the USCIS has announced that it will continue to follow the Dates for Filing for Family-Sponsored Adjustment of Status Applications for the January 2021 Visa Bulletin.
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Season’s Greetings from Pasricha & Patel
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The Pasricha & Patel team wishes you the happiest of holidays this season. May the New Year be filled with a lot of joy, health, and prosperity.
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USCIS Begins Accepting First-time DACA applications Following December 4, 2020 Court Order
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Following the court order issued by the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York on December 4, 2020, the USCIS has posted formal notice on its website that it will start accepting first-time requests for consideration of Deferred Action of Childhood Arrivals (DACA) in accordance with the DACA policy that was in effect before September 5, 2017.
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U.S. District Court Orders DHS to Resume Accepting First-time DACA applications
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Link: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/
daca-restoration-order- immigration-applicants/ Pasricha & Patel
Judge Nicholas Garaufis of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York has ruled that the U.S. Department of Homeland Security must post public notice no later than Monday, December 7, 2020 that DHS will begin to accept first-time Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) applications, renewal requests, and advanced parole travel documents on the terms that existed before September 5, 2017, which is when the current administration tried to end the DACA program.
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USCIS will comply with U.S. District Court Order and not implement stricter H-1B rule.
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In the aftermath of the December 1, 2020 ruling by the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California that had blocked the further implementation of the Department of Homeland Security’s Interim Final Rule (IFR), Strengthening the H-1B Nonimmigrant Visa Classification Program, (in the matter of (Chamber of Commerce, et al. v. DHS, et al., 12/1/20), the USCIS has announced that it will fully comply with the court’s ruling.
The DHS’s regulations that were scheduled to take effect on Monday, December 7, 2020, would have allowed the DHS to change the regulatory definition and standards for determining what a “specialty occupation” is, and it would have greatly shortened the validity period of H-1B approvals for third-party placement H-1B petitions to maximum of one (1) year.
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DOL will comply court orders and rollback prevailing wage levels to pre-October 8, 2020 wage levels for LCA and PERM filings
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Link: https://www.dol.gov/agencies/eta/foreign-labor
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U.S. Department of Labor’s Office of Labor Certification (OFLC) has announced that it will begin to comply with the recent U.S. District Court rulings regarding DOL’s prevailing wage rule.
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U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals Upholds Limited Preliminary Injunctions of the DHS Public Charge Rule
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Link: https://www.cnn.com/2020/12/02/politics/immigration-public-charge/index.html
Pasricha & Patel
In a 2-1 ruling on December 2, 2020, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the preliminary injunctions that had been issued by the Northern District of California and the Eastern District of Washington against the Department of Homeland Security’s Public Charge Rule.But the same Appeals Court also vacated the Eastern District of Washington’s entry of a nationwide injunction against the Public Charge Rule.
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Federal Court Blocks both the DOL wage hike rule and the DHS H-1B rule
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Link: https://www.courthousenews.com/federal-judge-nixes-new-rules-restricting-h1-b-visas/
Pasricha & Patel
The U.S District Court for the Northern District of California has blocked the further implementation of the Department of Homeland Security’s Interim Final Rule (IFR), Strengthening the H-1B Nonimmigrant Visa Classification Program, as well as the Department of Labor’s interim final rule, Strengthening Wage Protections for the Temporary and Permanent Employment of Certain Aliens in the United States, in the matter of (Chamber of Commerce, et al. v. DHS, et al., 12/1/20)
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USCIS Sets the December 2020 Adjustment of Status Filing Charts For the Visa Bulletin
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Shortly after the publication of the December 2020 visa bulletin by the U.S. Department of State, the USCIS has announced that it will continue to follow the Dates for Filing for Family-Sponsored Adjustment of Status Applications for the December 2020 Visa Bulletin.
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USCIS Introduces Updated Naturalization Civics Test
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Link: https://www.uscis.gov/news/news-releases/uscis-announces-a-revised-naturalization-civics-test
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USCIS has announced its formal plans to introduce a revised version of the naturalization civics test. The USCIS had previously announced their plans to revise and update the civics portion of the naturalization test in July 2019.
Naturalization applicants who apply for naturalization on or after December 1, 2020 will take the updated version of the test. Those naturalization applicants who apply before December 1, 2020 will take the current version of the naturalization test.
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Department of Homeland Security's Public Charge Rule Has Been Blocked Nationwide
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Link: https://apnews.com/article/us-judge-blocks-immigation-rule-455a43be3393915bc14ec7919bf187d0
Pasricha & Patel
On November 2, 2020, U.S. District Court Judge in the Northern District of Illinois vacated the Department of Homeland Security (DHS)’s Public Charge regulation and ruled that it had violated the Administrative Procedures Act (APA). This ruling takes effect nationwide and with immediate effect. This means the USCIS cannot enforce the public charge rule and this will directly impact applicants who are filing for nonimmigrant change of status and extension of status petitions, as well as those applicants who are applying for adjustment of status petitions with the USCIS.
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USCIS Sets the November 2020 Adjustment of Status Filing Charts For the Visa Bulletin
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In the follow-up to the highly anticipated October 2020 Visa Bulletin, the USCIS has decided once again to follow the same filing charts for the November 2020 Visa Bulletin.
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