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 ...
The U.S. District Court of the Eastern District of Texas has vacated and set aside a recently promulgated U.S. Department of Labor’s (“USDOL”) rule that effectively made it easier for salaried employees qualify for the Fair Labor Standards Act’s (“FLSA’s”) overtime ...
The New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (“NJDEP”) is proposing extensive new rules, repeals, and amendments to several of its site remediation regulations. If adopted, these changes will significantly impact requirements for owners, operators, or other persons ...
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 ...
Employers with employees operating online accounts on the employer’s behalf will want to retrieve the login information (such as access codes and passwords) for those accounts when the employee parts ways with the company. To increase the likelihood of a seamless surrender of that ...
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 ...
A Texas judge “set aside” the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC’s) proposed ban on most non-compete agreements (the “Rule”) on August 20, 2024. It is likely that this federal district court judge’s order will have nationwide effect, not merely in the Northern District of ...
New Jersey businesses should expect that courts will generally refuse to enforce existing non-compete agreements after September 4, 2024, despite recent lawsuits challenging the Federal Trade Commission’s (“FTC’s”) recently adopted ban on non-compete agreements.
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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 ...