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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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Higher Immigration Penalties for I-9 and Other Violations Going Into Effect August 1, 2016
July 29, 2016 | Alert | By Susan Cohen
As a result of the Federal Civil Penalties Inflation Adjustment Act Improvements Act of 2015, higher immigration fines and penalties will go into effect on August 1, 2016.
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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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Department of State Releases August 2016 Visa Bulletin
July 12, 2016 | Alert | By Susan Cohen
The U.S. 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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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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USCIS Completes the H-1B Cap Lottery Selection Process and Data Entry for Fiscal Year 2017
May 3, 2016 | Alert
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced on May 2, 2016, that it has completed data entry of all fiscal year 2017 H-1B cap-subject petitions selected in a computer-generated random lottery.
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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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H-1B Cap Hit for Fiscal Year 2017
April 7, 2016 | Alert | By Susan Cohen
On April 7, 2016, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced that it had received more than enough H-1B petitions to meet the numerical limit for fiscal year 2017 cap-subject H-1B visas, which includes both the 65,000 general H-1B cap petitions as well as the 20,000 U.S.
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