Key Takeaways: Weighted lottery favoring higher earners to go into effect for March 2026 H-1B Lottery Regular Cap and U.S.
September 26, 2025
Key Takeaways: Weighted lottery favoring higher earners to go into effect for March 2026 H-1B Lottery Regular Cap and U.S.
Quick Takeaways Supreme Court prohibits federal courts to issue nationwide injunctions for immigration-related Executive Orders Relief only available to litigants
Quick Takeaways U.S. Department of State advises it will resume appointment scheduling for F, J, M Visa Applicants All Applicants
Quick Takeaways Nationals from 19 countries either wholly or partially prohibited from entering United States as of June 9, 2025
Quick Takeaways U.S. Department of State will not schedule new student visa appointments to facilitate enhancements to social media vetting
Quick Takeaways Updates supersede prior guidance that expanded availability of mail-in visa applications Must be applying in country of citizenship/residence
Quick Takeaways Expansion and escalation of immigration-related enforcement activities to maximize DOJ’s use of criminal statutes to punish or deter
As predicted, the Administration has been busy issuing and rescinding immigration-related Executive Orders within the 48 hours following Trump’s inauguration.
A key pillar of Trump 2.0’s immigration policy is his stated intent to remove any and all undocumented foreign nationals
Green and Spiegel U.S. co-authored the Issue Brief: Immigration-Related Campus Concerns, prepared in collaboration with the American Council on Education
For U.S. employers confronted by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (“ICE”), Homeland Security Investigations (“HSI”), the U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage
Happy holidays! In the spirit of giving, we are happy to announce that the U.S. Department of Homeland Security recently
Green and Spiegel will be publishing guides on what we expect from the Trump Administration in six weeks on a number of topics – from USCIS adjudications, U.S. Department of State procedures, and U.S. Department of Labor requirements, to worksite enforcement, removal priorities, asylum protocols, and other areas of interest.
Quick Takeaways First update to J-1 Skills List since 2009 Skills themselves unchanged, but list of countries subject to the
Quick Takeaways NIW submissions have almost tripled since 2022 with approval rates dropping 10% O-1A submissions increased but have steadied
On August 2, 2024, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia affirmed a lower court’s ruling that
On July 30, 2024, USCIS announced that it would conduct a second randomized selection in the Fiscal Year 2025 H-1B
Written by Jonathan Grode, Barbara Leen, Amy Nice, and Joshua Rolf. Learn more on Institute for Progress (IFP). Updates to
How a 2022 update streamlines the green card process. Written by Jonathan Grode, Barbara Leen, Amy Nice, and Joshua Rolf.
Quick Takeaways U.S. Consulates abroad issued record numbers of immigrant and nonimmigrant visas over the first half of Fiscal Year