The Department of State (DOS) has issued its September 2024 Visa Bulletin.
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USCIS announced last week that it need to select additional H-1B lottery registrations from the registrations that were not selected in March 2024, in order to meet the annual limit (“cap”) of 65,000 H-1B visas allocated for this fiscal year, which begins October 1, 2024.
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As the political situation in Lebanon deteriorates and the humanitarian crisis in Somalia worsens, President Biden and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) have implemented temporary relief for certain Lebanese nationals in the U.S.
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Due to the extraordinary humanitarian conditions in Yemen, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has announced the extension and redesignation of Yemen for Temporary Protected Status (“TPS”) until March 3, 2026.
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The Department of State (DOS) has issued its August 2024 Visa Bulletin. Compared to previous months with significant movement, this month shows a slowdown in the forward movement of priority dates for both the employment-based and family-based immigrant visa categories. No categories will retrogress in August.
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President Biden has recently proposed a program that would allow certain undocumented spouses of U.S. citizens (and their children) to obtain work authorization and legal permanent resident (“LPR”) status while remaining in the United States.
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Due to the ongoing urgent humanitarian situation in Haiti, Secretary of Homeland Security, Alejandro N. Mayorkas, has announced the extension and expansion of Haiti for Temporary Protected Status (TPS) until February 3, 2026.
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The Department of State (DOS) has issued its July 2024 Visa Bulletin. After several months of minimal progress in priority dates, we finally will see forward movement in many employment-based and family-based immigrant visa categories. However, there will also be a retrogression in the final action dates for the EB-3 employment-based immigrant visa category.
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The Department of State (DOS) has issued its June 2024 Visa Bulletin. Like in May, we primarily see forward movement in the family-based immigrant visa categories in June. There is almost no movement in the employment-based immigrant visa categories. Fortunately, none of the categories will retrogress.
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USCIS has released the number of registrations it received for this year’s H-1B visa lottery: 479,953, resulting in 120,603 selected registrants.* This is nearly 300,000 less than last year’s numbers: 780,884. In comparison to last year’s chance of selection of 15%, the chances of being selected in the H-1B lottery for this fiscal year 2025 increased to 25.13%.
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