by Adrian Pelaez | Apr 15, 2015 | Immigration News
Companies are seeking more foreign workers than ever before to fill highly skilled jobs in technology and other industries, but the United States will grant visas to just a fraction of them in a lottery that began this week. Anxious to bump up those visa limits, a...
by Adrian Pelaez | Apr 14, 2015 | Immigration News
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced yesterday the expansion of myE-Verify services nationwide. myE-Verify is a one-stop shop for employees to create and maintain secure personal accounts and access features for identity protection. “Since its...
by Adrian Pelaez | Apr 8, 2015 | Immigration News
Google, Ebay, Intel and Kraft are successful companies with at least one founder who was an immigrant or child of an immigrant, but there is much more. In 2010, more than 40% of the Fortune 500 companies were founded by immigrants, around 90 companies, were founded...
by Adrian Pelaez | Jun 18, 2012 | Immigration News, New Regulations
As stated by Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano on June 15, 2012, “effective immediately, certain young people who were brought to the United States as young children, do not present a risk to national security or public safety, and meet several key...
by Adrian Pelaez | Aug 4, 2011 | Green Card, Immigration News, New Regulations
In an effort to bolster foreign investment, promote start-ups and create much needed jobs, jobs, jobs in the United States, USCIS has launched new initiatives directed at entrepreneurs. Primarily they have opened the EB-2 immigrant visa category to these individuals....
by Adrian Pelaez | Mar 30, 2011 | Artists Big News, Immigration News, New Regulations, The O1 Visa, Visas Q&A
We had the pleasure of participating in a teleconference held by USCIS on March 24, 2011, specifically on the issue of “Agents as Petitioners” for O1 visas, which in and of itself will be a topic for future discussion, as there was a tremendous amount of light shed on...
