If you are a U.S. citizen, there are two ways you can bring your significant other to the U.S. to get a green card (AKA lawful permanent residency). You can read more about the difference in a blog post I had written by clicking here. In this post, I am going to talk about adding
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Family-Based Immigration, Marriage, Visas
The U.S. Department of State publishes a visa bulletin every month that shows where they are in the process of issuing green cards. This bulletin allows people to see how long it could be before a visa becomes available for them to be able to apply for their green cards. Here is the October 2019
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Visa Bulletin
**UPDATE: On October 11, 2019, federal judges in New York and California ordered a nationwide block, which prevented the rule from going into effect. On January 27, 2020, the U.S. Supreme Court decided that this rule can go into effect. USCIS announced that they will begin implementing this rule starting February 24, 2020. A
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Family-Based Immigration, Policy Change
Did you know that if you are restaurant that specializes in a certain type of cuisine and need specialty chefs who have at least two years of chef experience in that cuisine, you may be able to petition for that chef to immigrate to the U.S. to get his or her green card (AKA lawful
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Employment-Based Immigration, PERM, Visa Bulletin
The U.S. Department of State publishes a visa bulletin every month that shows where they are in the process of issuing green cards. This bulletin allows people to see how long it could be before a visa becomes available for them to be able to apply for their green cards. The reason that this bulletin
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Visa BulletinUSCIS recently released an a chart breaking down the top 10 reasons they issued Request for Evidence (RFE) letters for H-1B petitions that were filed for fiscal year 2018. They are the following: Specialty Occupation – The petitioning company did not establish that the position qualified as a specialty occupation. Employer/Employee Relationship – The petitioning
One of the sad realities of our immigration system is that it can take a very long time to bring over certain family members. For example, if a U.S. citizen mother petitions to bring her married son to the U.S., it could take over 22 years before that son will be able to come to
With H-1B season just around the corner, the new rule for H-1B processing is something that I’ve gotten many questions on. I had written a blog post about the proposed changes to the H-1B process this past December. On January 30, 2019, DHS announced that the new rule governing the H-1B process would become final
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Employment, H-1B, Policy Change
Many people who are wanting to get a temporary work visa in the U.S. have likely heard of the H-1B visa. There is another classification called the TN visa that is similar in some ways to the H-1B, and if you are a Mexican or Canadian citizen, this work visa could be for you. The
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Employment
A lot of changes have happened in our immigration system, especially since Trump took office. One of the biggest changes I have seen is in processing times. Certain types of cases that used to take 3 to four months are now taking anywhere from 11.5 months to 23 months. An immigration officer had told me
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