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UK Immigration: SMS Request Premium Service Announced for Future Implementation

September 22, 2016 | Blog | By William Coffman

The UK Home Office has announced plans to offer an optional premium service for requests made through the Sponsor Management System (SMS). This service will allow Sponsors to pay a fee of £200 for expedited processing of certain types of requests including Certificate of Sponsorship allocation and Level 1 user appointment.
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The Implications of the Proposed Entrepreneur Rule

September 7, 2016 | Blog

Practice Chair, Susan Cohen was quoted in the Law360 article, Rule for Foreign Startup Founders Seen as Helpful Stopgap in which she explains the nuances of the UCIS’s proposed entrepreneur rule, which will allow immigrant startup founders to temporarily stay in the U.S.
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Back to Work from Travel Abroad? Check Your Form I-94!

September 6, 2016 | Blog | By Angel Feng

As foreign national employees come back from summer vacations and travel abroad, one of the most overlooked immigration documents and pitfalls is Form I-94.
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Immigration Relief for Foreign Entrepreneurs

August 26, 2016 | Blog

Today USCIS released the text of a proposed rule to be published in the Federal Register shortly, that provides temporary immigration relief to qualifying foreign entrepreneurs whose presence in the U.S. would be a public benefit to the country.
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Lawsuits Question Procedure and Substance of H-1B Lottery

August 22, 2016 | Blog | By Cassie Ramos

Late this spring, two lawsuits were filed against the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) seeking information about and challenging the administration of the H-1B visa lottery process.
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Summer Travel Tips Released by CBP

July 22, 2016 | Blog | By Immigration News Team

U.S. Customs and Border Protection ("CBP") Commissioner R. Gil Kerlikowske released the agency's summer travel tips for international travelers.
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August Visa Bulletin: New EB-1 Cutoff for India/ China & EB-2 Cutoff for All Other

July 12, 2016 | Blog | By Immigration News Team

The Department of State released the visa bulletin for August 2016 and set cutoff dates for employment-based first preference Chinese and Indian chargeable applicants as well as second preference categories for “all other” nationalities.
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Innocents Abroad: Creating a Company's Global Mobility & Immigration Policy

June 29, 2016 | Blog

I appreciate the guidance you have provided regarding the documents the company needs to have in place when sending an employee on an assignment abroad.
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Work and Travel Guidance for F-1 Students with H-1B Change of Status Petitions

June 27, 2016 | Blog | By Immigration News Team, William Coffman

Practice Chair Susan Cohen and Of Counsel Bill Coffman have published annual guidance on travel for F-1 students who are the beneficiaries of H-1B petitions with change of status requests.
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Brexit: Immigration consequences to the UK leaving the EU?

June 24, 2016 | Blog | By Immigration News Team

The United Kingdom (England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Island) went to the polls June 23rd and voted to leave the European Union. Some pro-leave "Brexit" campaigners argued for the ability to limit migration of EU workers as an important issue in the run-up to the referendum.
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Innocents Abroad: Benefit and Compensation Considerations

June 15, 2016 | Blog | By Alexander Song

Thank you again for all your help over the past few weeks as we address our concerns with employees going abroad. We previously talked about offer letters and employment agreements.
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Innocents Abroad: Employment Agreements for Employees Working In High Risk Countries

May 4, 2016 | Blog | By David Barmak, Alta Ray

Thanks again for your guidance over the past several weeks. Now that we’ve tackled updating our offer letters for employees working abroad, I’d like to look at our employment agreements.
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New STEM OPT Extension Rules: Critical Takeaways, Part 3

April 25, 2016 | Blog

In this short series on the new STEM OPT rules, Susan Cohen, Chair of Mintz Levin's Immigration Section will examine the top takeaways for students and their employers. The third post will focus on the eligibility and requirements for employers.
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New STEM OPT Extension Rules: Critical Takeaways, Part 2

April 21, 2016 | Blog

In this short series on the new STEM OPT rules, Susan Cohen, Chair of Mintz Levin's Immigration Section will examine the top takeaways for students and their employers. The second post will focus on the expansion of the regulation and related changes and reporting requirements for students.
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New STEM OPT Extension Rules: Critical Takeaways, Part 1

April 20, 2016 | Blog

In this short series on the new STEM OPT rules, Susan Cohen, Chair of Mintz Levin's Immigration Section will examine the top takeaways for students and their employers. The first post will focus on the timing rules related to the new regulation.
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Immigration Policy By Lottery? Another Year, Nothing Changes.

April 18, 2016 | Blog | By William Coffman

The diversity visa green card lottery has been an important part of U.S. immigration law for the last 20 years. It allows 55,000 foreign nationals to immigrate each year and was implemented to fulfill the worthy goal of increasing the diversity of immigrants in the U.S.
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H-1B Cap Filings Break Record

April 13, 2016 | Blog | By Immigration News Team

USCIS announced that it completed the lottery for the new fiscal year's H-1B cap cases. The agency also released the final (approximate) count of cap-eligible H-1B cases filed for FY2017; a new record of 236,000 cases were filed.
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Innocents Abroad: Sending Employees Into Harm’s Way – A Word About Offer Letters Part 2

April 6, 2016 | Blog | By Brent Douglas

As promised, I am following up on my email from last week regarding some additional resources for employees working abroad.
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USCIS Guidance on "Same or a Similar" Occupation for AC21 Welcomed

March 28, 2016 | Blog

In a welcome move, on March 18, 2016 U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) released policy guidance for its officers to help them decide "green card portability" cases.
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Innocents Abroad: Sending Employees Into Harm’s Way – A Word About Offer Letters

March 23, 2016 | Blog | By Brent Douglas

Although I have been writing offer and assignment letters for more than 15 years, I’m curious as to what are today’s best practices for preparing these documents as our company extends its global reach.
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