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USCIS Premium Processing Service Fee Increase Effective February 26, 2024 1000 559 Kathleen Grzegorek
  • Kathleen Grzegorek

USCIS Premium Processing Service Fee Increase Effective February 26, 2024

The USCIS has announced an increase of the Premium Processing fee that applies to requests for expedited adjudications of eligible applications and petitions. The premium processing service is only available for applications/petitions and categories identified as eligible on the USCIS website. Any Form I-907, Request for Premium Processing Service, received on or after February 26,…

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Physical Inspection of Form I-9 Documents for Forms Prepared during Temporary Virtual COVID I-9 Flexibilities Must be Completed by August 30, 2023 1280 853 Kathleen Grzegorek
  • Kathleen Grzegorek

Physical Inspection of Form I-9 Documents for Forms Prepared during Temporary Virtual COVID I-9 Flexibilities Must be Completed by August 30, 2023

Background DHS recently announced that the temporary flexibilities for virtual Form I-9 document review (temporary virtual option) will end on July 31, 2023, and employers must complete the required physical inspection for all Forms I-9 created under the temporary policy no later than August 30, 2023. Failure to timely complete inspection is a substantive I-9…

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Planned Pilot Program for US-Based Nonimmigrant Visas Stateside Processing 1280 853 Kathleen Grzegorek
  • Kathleen Grzegorek

Planned Pilot Program for US-Based Nonimmigrant Visas Stateside Processing

The Department of State is currently working on a pilot program to test the viability of renewing certain petition based NIV categories without having to leave the United States. The pilot program will initially include H-1B and L visas and is anticipated to roll out in Fall 2023, however the exact timeline and scope have…

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Understanding visas and immigration pathways for investors and entrepreneurs 1920 1093 Lincoln Stone
  • Lincoln Stone

Understanding visas and immigration pathways for investors and entrepreneurs

Immigration Pathways to the United States for Investors and Entrepreneurs  Investment and doing business in the United States continues to be attractive.  Foreign direct investment in the United States increased by 10% in 2021 as compared to 2020.[1]  Immigrants in particular play a substantial role in new business formation, and immigrants or their children have…

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California’s Pay Transparency for Pay Equity Act and impact on Permanent Labor Certification Programs (PERM) 1920 1220 Kathleen Grzegorek
  • Kathleen Grzegorek

California’s Pay Transparency for Pay Equity Act and impact on Permanent Labor Certification Programs (PERM)

On September 27, 2022, California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed Senate Bill 1162, a broad pay transparency bill requiring employers to include pay ranges in all job advertisements effective January 1, 2023. It also requires employers to report mean and median pay data to “better identify gender and race-based pay disparities.” In addition to California, other states…

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Advocating Removal of Conditions for Good Faith Investors 600 337 Lincoln Stone
  • Lincoln Stone

Advocating Removal of Conditions for Good Faith Investors

New capital investment by immigrant investors interested in the EB-5 visa regional center (“RC”) program may be on pause while Congress puzzles out a legislative solution from historic negotiations on trillion-dollar public investments in infrastructure and social programs.  Nevertheless, the petition process carries on for existing investors of private capital to remove the conditions on…

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Immigrant Capital Investment and Priority Infrastructure 999 749 Lincoln Stone
  • Lincoln Stone

Immigrant Capital Investment and Priority Infrastructure

Through the Base Realignment and Closure (“BRAC”) process, successive Administrations in the post-Cold War era sought to increase efficiency and cut costs in the Department of Defense by closing and realigning military bases.  For the 1990s economy of the Inland Empire of Southern California, the closures of Norton AFB (San Bernardino) and George AFB (Victorville),…

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