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February 04, 2014
After several months of negotiations, on April 17, 2013 a bipartisan group of eight U.S. senators, informally known as the “Gang of Eight, introduced long-awaited legislation for a sweeping overhaul of the nation’s immigration system. Senator Charles Schumer (D-NY) introduced the bipartisan immigration reform legislation, Border Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Modernization Act of 2013 […]
February 04, 2014
(Newsletter Vol. XXIII, no. 06, April 24, 2013, Issue No. 2 ) April 11, 2013, the U.S. State Department released the upcoming visa bulletin for the month of May. According to the May Visa Bulletin, the priority date cut-offs for Employment-Based Third Preference (EB-3) sub-category for professionals and skilled workers will move by more than […]
February 04, 2014
(Newsletter Vol. XXIII, no. 05, April 10, 2013, Issue No. 1) Mr. Mehrotra speaking at the workshop at George Mason University Last month, Rakesh Mehrotra, Managing Attorney and Founder of the Law Offices of Rakesh Mehrotra, spoke at a workshop for international students and scholars at George Mason University, Fairfax, VA. His presentation covered immigration […]
February 04, 2014
Overview The U.S. government has proposed to attract the world’s best and brightest entrepreneurs to start the next great companies in the United States. On November 28, 2012 U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), the Federal agency responsible for administering visa programs, announced new resource for immigrant entrepreneurs, the Entrepreneur Pathways, an online resource center […]
February 04, 2014
Vol. XXIII, no.06, April 24, 2013, Issue no 2 USCIS used computer-generated random selection process to select cap-subject H-1B petitions since it received more petitions than the H-1B numerical cap for the FY 2014 April 8, 2013, WASHINGTON— For the first time since 2008, USCIS reached the statutory H-1B cap of 65,000 for fiscal year (FY) […]
