February 3rd, 2012 
Tushar Mathur US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced last week that there have been five more countries added to the list of eligible nationals who can participate in the H-2A and H-2B programs in 2012. This brings the lists total to 58 countries. The list of Countries will be reviewed again one year from the date of publication.
The H-2A and H-2B programs allow US employers to bring foreign workers to the US in order to fill temporary agricultural jobs and temporary non-agricultural jobs.
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Comments Off December 26th, 2011 Tushar Mathur “WASHINGTON – U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) will change the filing locations for Form I-130, Petition for Alien Relative. Effective Jan. 1, 2012, domestic petitioners will mail their stand-alone I-130 applications to either the Chicago Lockbox or the Phoenix Lockbox, depending on where they reside in the United States. The new filing locations will be updated with the corresponding addresses on Jan. 1 on the Form I-130 Direct Filing Locations page. This effort will balance workloads between the two locations and provide more efficient and effective processing of Form I-130.
Posted in Uncategorized Tags: Alien, Applications, Chicago Lockbox, Citizenship And Immigration, Citizenship And Immigration Services, filing address, Form I 130, Form I 130 Petition, Form I 485, I-130, Jurisdiction, Location Changes, Overseas Addresses, Permanent Residence, Petitioners, Phoenix, S Citizenship And Immigration Services, U S Citizenship And Immigration Services, Uscis Comments Off August 29th, 2011 Tushar Mathur Starting Aug. 15, 2011, petitioners who live in foreign countries without USCIS offices must file their Form I-130, Petition for an Alien Relative, with the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) lockbox facility in Chicago. The addresses are listed below. However, Petitioners living in a country with a USCIS office may choose to send their I-130 petition to the USCIS Chicago addresses, OR file at the USCIS office in that country. The current processing time is approximately five months, as reported by the USCIS.
Please note: Filing addresses and procedures change constantly. You should always check the current instructions in the form or USCIS.gov website.
For U.S.
Continue reading “Filing of I-130 petitions in foreign countries centralized in Chicago”
Posted in Uncategorized Tags: Chicago Addresses, Citizenship And Immigration, Citizenship And Immigration Services, Citizenship And Immigration Services Uscis, Courier Deliveries, Express Mail, filing address, Five Months, Floor Chicago, Foreign Countries, Form I 130, Form I 130 Petition, I 130 Petition, I-130, Immigrant Visa, Petitioners, Processing Time, S Citizenship And Immigration Services, S Postal Service, South Dearborn, U S Citizenship And Immigration Services, U S Postal Service, Uscis, Uscis Gov Comments Off August 11th, 2011 Tushar Mathur The US government has outlined a series of “policy, operational, and outreach efforts” which it hopes will drive economic growth and stimulate investment by encouraging foreign entrepreneurs to immigrate to the United States.
The new initiatives were announced by United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) director Alejandro Mayorkas and Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano.
“The United States has a long, rich history of welcoming innovative entrepreneurs and skilled workers into our country,” Mayorkas said on his blog.
“These men and women fuel our nation’s economy by creating jobs, and promoting new technologies and ideas,” he added.
“Today, I joined Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano and outlined a series of new policy, operational, and outreach efforts that will help fuel the nation’s economy and stimulate investment by making it easier for high-skill immigrants to start and grow companies and create jobs here in the United States.”
USCIS announced that it will:
Continue reading “United States encourages entrepreneur immigration”
Posted in Uncategorized Tags: Citizenship And Immigration, Citizenship And Immigration Services, Citizenship And Immigration Services Uscis, Employer Employee Relationship, Engagement Opportunities, Entrepreneur Immigration, Immigrant Entrepreneurs, Immigrant Investor, Immigrant Petitions, Janet Napolitano, Job Offer, Launch, Multinational Executives, Non Immigrant Visa, Outreach Efforts, Processing Service, Secretary Of Homeland Security, Skilled Workers, United States Citizenship And Immigration Services, Visa Category Comments Off May 20th, 2011 Tushar Mathur The EB-5 investor visa program sets aside10,000 visas annually to immigrant investors who invest in commercial enterprises that create at least 10 U.S. jobs.
Continue reading “Significant Enhancements to EB-5 Regional Center Investor Visa Program Proposed”
Posted in Uncategorized Tags: Calendar Days, Citizenship And Immigration, Citizenship And Immigration Services, E Mail, Eb, Economic Analysis, Economic Growth, Enhancements, Immigrant Investor Program, Immigrant Investors, Immigration System, Investor Visa Program, Legal Immigration, Obama, Processing Service, Regional Center, Rural Areas, S Citizenship And Immigration Services, U S Citizenship And Immigration Services, Uscis Comments Off March 31st, 2011 Tushar Mathur United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) will start accepting H-1B petitions for Fiscal Year (FY) 2012 on 1 April 2011. However, the earliest you can start work on an H-1B visa is October 2011. US firms use H-1B visas to recruit overseas workers in specialty occupations in fields in the sciences, engineering, and information technology.
The H-1B visa scheme is subject to an annual cap set by the United States Congress each year. For FY 2012, the cap is again set at 65,000 visas. There are 20,000 additional visas for those with US Masters degrees or higher.
“The first 20,000 H-1B petitions filed on behalf of individuals with U.S.
Continue reading “US to accept H-1B applications from 1 April 2011″
Posted in Uncategorized Tags: 1 April, 1b Petitions, 1b Program, 1b Visas, Citizenship And Immigration, Citizenship And Immigration Services, Economic Downturn, Governmental Research, H 1b Visa, Institutions Of Higher Education, Masters Degrees, Nonprofit Research Organizations, Occupations, Sciences Engineering, Skilled Labor, United States Citizenship And Immigration, United States Citizenship And Immigration Services, United States Congress, Uscis, Visa Extensions Comments Off March 18th, 2011 Tushar Mathur WASHINGTON— U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced today,
in response to recent stakeholder feedback, that it is currently reviewing its
policy on H-1B cap exemptions for non-profit entities that are related to or
affiliated with an institution of higher education. Until further guidance is
issued, USCIS is temporarily applying interim procedures to H-1B non-profit
entity petitions filed with the agency seeking an exemption from the statutory
H-1B numerical cap based on an affiliation with or relation to an institution of
higher education.
Effective immediately, during this interim period USCIS will give deference to
prior determinations made since June 6, 2006, that a non-profit entity is
related to or affiliated with an institution of higher education – absent any
significant change in circumstances or clear error in the prior adjudication –
and, therefore, exempt from the H-1B statutory cap.
Continue reading “H-1B Cap Exemptions Based on Relation or Affiliation”
Posted in Uncategorized Tags: 1b Cap, Adjudication, Approval Notice, Citizenship And Immigration, Citizenship And Immigration Services, Deference, Form I 129, Interim Basis, Interim Period, Interim Procedures, Nonimmigrant Visa, Petitioner, Petitioners, Profit Entities, Profit Entity, S Citizenship And Immigration Services, Stakeholder Feedback, Statutory Cap, U S Citizenship And Immigration Services, Uscis Comments Off March 18th, 2011 Tushar Mathur USCIS understands that a natural disaster can affect an individual’s ability to establish or maintain lawful immigration status. Temporary relief measures available to eligible nationals of Japan may include:
Continue reading “USCIS Reminds Japanese Nationals Impacted by Recent Disaster”
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