Last night Congress passed an appropriations bill that will fund the Department of Homeland Security, the State Department, and other federal agencies through to September 30, 2019. The President is…
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On March 11, USCIS will introduce a new Form I-539, Application to Extend/Change Nonimmigrant Status. This revised version of the form will be implemented immediately upon release and no older…
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We just received an approval at the U.S. Consulate in Dubai for an E-2 visa filed on behalf of a Pakistani national treaty investor. The investor purchased a gas station and…
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We just had an E-2 investor visa approval at the U.S. Consulate in Toronto. The applicant was granted the visa for 5 years and the business is a book publishing company…
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We just had an L-1A approval at the U.S. Citizenship & Immigration Services. The applicant is a merchandising executive and received his L-1A visa stamp at the U.S. Consulate in Ottawa. The applicant…
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Scott Legal, P.C. just had an EB-5 approval for a national from India. The client invested in a regional center where he invested $500,000. The EB-5 program is one where…
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Zhang v. USCIS is a November 2018 Class Action Lawsuit that challenged USCIS’ denials of EB-5 investment petitions that had investment funds sourced solely from unsecured loans. The EB-5 program,…
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We just had an E-3 extension of status approved by the U.S. Citizenship & Immigration Services. The applicant is an accountant working for a hotel. The business is based in Florida.
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Scott Legal, P.C. had an approval for a naturalization application. The green card holder had been in the U.S. for several years and recently decided to apply for Citizenship. The green card…
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Kelly R. LeGrand Weiner spoke on E-2 visa issues at a Corporate Practice Committee event for AILA’s New York chapter as part of a larger conversation with business immigration practitioners…
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Scott Legal, P.C. just had a TN visa approval at Pearson International Airport for a Canadian national. The visa was approved for 3 years and the category was engineering. TN…
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In September 2018, USCIS created a venue to accepts copies of negative consultation letters directly from labor unions for O nonimmigrant visas. For more information about O-1 petitions, please click here.…
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H-1B cap season for fiscal year 2020 will begin on April 1, 2019. Employers should start preparing for cap petitions now as applications not received within the first five business…
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We just had an B-1 extension approval at the U.S. Citizenship & Immigration Services. The applicant was granted an extension of B-1 business visitor status in order to further investigate E-2…
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Four months after Canada became the second country in the world to legalize recreational marijuana use and certain commercial activities, Canadian travelers who are found to have invested in legal…
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Due to low workload, USCIS will permanently close the Moscow field office on March 29, 2019. The last day the field office will accept applications is on February 28, 2019.…
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We just had an E-2 employee visa approval at the U.S. Consulate in Toronto. The visa was approved for 5 years for an architect. The visa was approved under the…
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Scott Legal P.C. just had an E-2 visa approval for an investor in Toronto for a headhunting recruiter business for a National from Canada. The business was set up in…
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Starting on March 1, 2019, H visa and L visa interviews in Mainland China will only be conducted at the U.S. embassy in Beijing, the U.S. consulate in Guangzhou, and…
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Scott Legal P.C. was hired to write a business plan for an E-2 visa and the E-2 visa was just approved. The application was processed through USCIS and in time…
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There are three common ways to get a green card through marriage to a U.S. Citizen. This post summarizes the three different options. Obtaining a Green Card through a Fiancé…
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The Department of Homeland Security has announced in an advanced copy of the new H-1B regulation that the cap registration system will be postponed until the next filing period in…
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On January 14, 2019, USCIS sent the final version of the new H-1B cap registration rule to the Office of Management and Budget. Today, the rule has been cleared OMB…
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Scott Legal, P.C. just had another approval at the U.S. Consulate in Toronto for an E-2 visa. The visa was granted for 5 years to a Canadian national who started…
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USCIS has announced today that applicants who have a pending asylum application with USCIS can now check their case status online here. Only asylum applicants with an application pending with…
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