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A good primer for employers and employees subject to the need to obtain H-1B status. https://discuss.ilw.com//397061-article-abc-s-of-h-1bs-by-

The expectation of the coming of a Biden junta will still be difficult to obtain an ability to increase the number of work visas into the USA, especially H-1B, H-2B, L-1, etc. https://discuss.ilw.com//397079-article-extending-the-immi

The election of 2020 is still yet undetermined, regardless of what turncoats like Mark Zuckerberg would tell you. That being said, the list of proposals of immigration practitioners to deregulate the immigration system in the U.S. includes some very good and overdue ideas. https://www.cato.org//deregulating-legal-immigration-bluep

U.S. DOS has been more than silly in treating incoming medical students seeking a J-1 exchange visas, to fit study-residency programs lasting 3-7 years, the same as someone coming to a six-month language school. More than silly. https://discuss.ilw.com//396934-article-a-proposal-to-brin

Those applicants for permanent visas whose temporary visas expire in 24 months can be granted waivers from any future interviews by USDOS at a foreign consulate or embassy. https://discuss.ilw.com//396962-news-expansion-of-intervie

Led by Marxist Congresswoman Prayamila Jayapal (D-WA), the Left plan to go far, far beyond fairness or humanness for immigrants in a Biden regime, straight into a virtual open-ended, limitless system for admitting both legal and illegal immigrants, and eliminating any immigration enforcement. They show that they are not interested in anything but destroying American sovereignty. https://immigrationimpact.com//immigration-reform-plan-b/

The new USCIS policy on H-2B, as part of a new bill about to be passed through Congress, will require businesses with more than 50 employees not to have over 50% foreign H-1B visa work permit holders, barring further petitions if that employer does. Most of the immigration bar will complain. It actually seems to make sense to me. https://discuss.ilw.com//396784-article-h-1b-dependent-emp

Illegal immigration has been a disruptive influence, that needed a clear imposition of law and order, especially at the Mexican border. Doing so has, in most cases, a benefit for American semi-skilled workers and those skilled workers in important trades like construction. However, in the higher-educated professions and businesses, tighter restrictions has had a negative effect on the economy, and that mid-course correction will be needed in immigration policy in a Trump 2nd term. https://www.nationalreview.com//there-really-has-been-a-/

With ever more stringent demands by USCIS, doctors seeking EB-1 extraordinary ability status will have to significantly build their portfolios in support of their visa applications. https://www.klaskolaw.com//how-physicians-can-improve-the/

To deal with the large backlog of applicants for H-1B and J-1 work visa status, the Secretaries of DHS and DOS issue a proposed regulation that will authorize people coming into the USA otherwise that they can gain legal status as a B-1 tourist for at least 6 months, possibly 1 year, and renewable, as a B-1 visitor for express business purposes. That will help businesses who are frustrated with the backlog of cases of applicants for H-1B status. https://discuss.ilw.com//396088-news-dos-on-temporary-visi

Independent organizations have evaluated the effect of new Dept of Labor regulations on prevailing wage and occupation requirements, and have found that prevailing wage requirements are so out of proportion to reality that discrimination and procedural violations are clear on their face. https://wolfsdorf.com/court-battles-ensue-on-dols-h-1b-pre/

The new regulations and restrictions now to be imposed on those applying for F-1 and J-1 student and scholar visas are directly geared to discourage the badly needed influx of international students for our increasingly knowledge-based economy. However, there needed to be measures taken to deal with those who use F-1 visas to use as an excuse to come and stay in America illegally. https://immigrationimpact.com//duration-of-status-change/

The problem with the new regulations determining prevailing wages for specialty occupations, and the jobs that are created from them, that Dept. Of Labor now have put forth, along with U.S. DHS, is that the categories now require qualifications totally out of bounds from what the jobs would normally require from an American employee. That means that DOL and their master, White House immigration advisor Stephen Miller, are engaged in job discrimination, and will badly harm American business. There will be lawsuits, now that the regulation takes effect now, and I think that even the more conservative courts will strike them down, at least in part. https://discuss.ilw.com//396019-article-interim-final-regu

Once again, in the pursuit of stopping the turning of legitimate asylum-seeking into a criminal mass invasion enterprise, DHS is engaged in high-handed tactics. An ICE-BCP pilot program forces asylum seekers to have their credible fear claims heard within less than 10 days, keeps them in BCP facilities that is not equipped to keep prisoners for more than 3 days before they should be transferred to more longer-term units, creating unsanitary and unhealthy environments in the middle of a pandemic, and on top of it, only allows inmates, often with spouses and children, only 24 hours to call for an attorney before their interview. https://immigrationimpact.com//prompt-asylum-claim-revie/

Large increases for requesting rapid premium processing of important employer-sponsored petitions and applications, especially for H-1B, J-1, L-1, and EB-1, EB-2, and EB-3 applicants for important non-immigrant and immigrant work visas, will place an inhibition on many legitimate employers needing top foreign talent, often in business areas where there are real shortages in American trained workers. https://discuss.ilw.com//396020-news-premium-processing-fe

ICE has now, by a court decision by the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, authority to not only exercise expedited removal of people caught inside the USA within 100 miles of the border, but if caught anywhere inside the USA. The vise on undocumenteds increases and tightens. https://www.ice.gov//ice-implements-july-23-2019-expedited

New proposed regulations by the U.S. Department of Labor in which the prevailing wages for H-1B and E-3 work visa applicants and employers will be raised higher than would be tolerable by many employees may require them to use a private wage determination, rather than the OES statistics sanctioned by the DOL. https://wolfsdorf.com/h-1b-e-3-employers-consider-using-pr/

Beginning November 20, 2020, the Attorney General’s announced limitations on eligibility for asylum will commence. While the amount of written content of the initial proposed regulations, the detailed comment from critics of the policy and DOJ defenders alike, and the final version of the regulation is quite voluminous, they focus on four main areas: 1) a ban on those who commit violent offenses in the U.S.A; 2) a ban on those committing fraud in obtaining public benefits li...ke welfare; 3) those who commit acts of domestic violence; 4) those who commit smuggling of other undocumented aliens in the country; and 5) those who engage in DUI or similar drug offenses that result in injury to others or who commit repeat offenses. The truth is, while there are individual elements of the regulation that will conflict with federal court decisions, most of the regulation is sensible and reasonable. We want to grant asylum to people who are of good character, who are victims of violence at the hands of their own government or criminal enterprises there, not criminals themselves. https://discuss.ilw.com//396089-news-procedures-for-asylum

Thanks to the recent decisions of the courts stalling the elimination of the lottery visa program, eligible immigrants can file for eligibility by November 10th, one more time. https://wolfsdorf.com/deadline-for-the-diversity-visa-gree/

It just appears that USCIS and DHS in general just simply don’t want to act with any sense of proportionality. The new stringent rules on prevailing wages and specialty occupation and educational requirements for H-1B applicants and employers are the kind that turn employers into frustrated and despairing men who dispense with hiring at all and employees who will simply go to greener pastures in the likes of Canada or Australia, especially after considerable expense is incurred in educating them. https://wolfsdorf.com/two-new-rules-further-discourage-u-s/

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