- Posts by Abigail Walsh
PartnerAbigail Walsh has over 20 years’ experience in a wide range of immigration matters. She represents multinational and domestic corporations, their employees and private individuals in business immigration matters before U.S ...
Department of State Issues May 2025 Visa Bulletin with Limited Movement for EB-3 India
For May 2025, USCIS determined that all Employment-Based (EB) preference categories must use the Final Action Dates chart in the Visa Bulletin. The Final Action chart remains unchanged as compared to ...
USCIS Has Randomly Selected Enough Beneficiaries with Properly Submitted Registrations to Reach the Fiscal Year 2026 H-1B Cap
On March 31, 2025, USCIS announced that it had randomly selected enough beneficiaries to reach the H-1B cap in the initial round of the lottery. It notified all ...
Increase in Cap-Gap Extension Period
Currently, F-1 student visa holders who present an Employment Authorization Document (EAD) and an H-1B receipt will have their EADs extended until October 1 of the same calendar year. Under a final rule published by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration ...
Department of Homeland Security Permanently Increases Automatic Extension Period for Employment Authorization Documents
Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has announced a final rule that will permanently increase the automatic extension period for employment authorizations and ...
Reminder: Now Is the Time to Prepare for H-1B Cap Filings For New Hires in 2025
As we explained in last month’s newsletter, H-1B “Cap Season” is once again upon us. The Cap refers to the annual numerical limit on H-1B visas. It is essential for employers seeking to hire foreign national ...
Alert: Now Is the Time to Prepare For H-1B Cap Filings For New Hires in 2025
H-1B “Cap Season” is once again upon us. It is essential for employers seeking to hire foreign national employees to identify and initiate processing of H-1B “Cap” submissions as early as possible given the ...
Department of State Issues October 2024 Visa Bulletin Showing Advancements
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) determined that, for October 2024, all Employment-Based (EB) preference categories must use the Dates of Filing chart in the Visa Bulletin. The Dates of Filing ...
Approvals of O-1 Visa Petitions and EB-2 National Interest Waiver Petitions Have Increased Following Favorable Guidance by the Biden Administration
In January 2022, the Biden administration announced favorable new guidance clarifying how certain professionals in the field of Science ...
Breaking News: USCIS Will Conduct Second Random Selection for Regular Cap from Previously Submitted FY 2025 H-1B Registrations
In March, the US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) conducted an initial random selection of properly submitted electronic registrations for ...
DHS Provides Employers with Fact Sheet on I-9 Fine Calculations
Form I-9 is used by employers to verify that employees are legally authorized to work in the US; compliance requires new hires to provide documentation of the right to work in the United States. As we have reported in earlier ...
