Archive for January, 2009
Tuesday, January 20th, 2009
The Department of Labor (DOL) announced its intention to closely scrutinize Labor Condition Applications (LCAs) in the forthcoming H1B season. This DOL decision will significantly increase the H1B LCA processing time from few minutes to one week. Currently, the online certification process takes only few minutes. However, with the increased ...
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Tuesday, January 20th, 2009
Recently, the White House released a proclamation issued by President of United States, George W. Bush, to restrict the international travel and to suspend entry into the US, as immigrants or non-immigrants, of certain senior government officials responsible for not adhering to anti-trafficking laws and policies. To curb and address ...
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Tuesday, January 20th, 2009
The Colorado Supreme Court in a bid to protect non-immigrants, prohibited non-attorneys like Notarios, notaries public, and immigration consultants from representing before USCIS and performing legal work. The Court allows only attorneys and properly accredited representatives granted official recognition by the Board of Immigration Appeals, to assist aliens in preparing ...
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Monday, January 19th, 2009
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) issued a document containing corrections to the final rule published in Federal Register on December 19, 2008 at 73 FR 77473. The pertinent regulations relate to the collection of biometric identifiers during the inspection of aliens at United States ports of entry.
Readers may recollect ...
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Monday, January 19th, 2009
DHS amended Employment Eligibility Verification interim rule that was published in the Federal register on December 17, 2008 at 73 FR 76505. DHS corrected two inadvertent errors found in two paragraphs at 8 CFR 274a.2 (b) (1) (vi) (B) (1) and (2) and published a detailed notice on these corrections. ...
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Monday, January 19th, 2009
On January 13, 2009, DHS published corrections to Final Rule that originally appeared in the Federal Register on December 19, 2008, titled "Changes to Requirements Affecting H-2B Non-immigrants and Their Employees."DHS announced that some inadvertently typographical errors have occurred on pages 78127, 78128, and 78130 of PART 214-Non-immigrant Classes and ...
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Friday, January 16th, 2009
Department of Homeland Security (DHS) promulgated an Interim Final rule today that replaces the current Guam Visa Waiver Program (VWP) with a new VWP for Guam and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI). New rule authorizes the department's US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) to establish six new ...
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Friday, January 16th, 2009
India and U.S. have begun collaborating in areas of food and drug regulation. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA), America's Health and Human Services department (HHS) has yesterday announced setting up of two offices in Delhi and Mumbai. The idea behind this is to enable food and drug producers in ...
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Friday, January 16th, 2009
In a bid to improve efficiency and information collected from public, Employment Training Administration (ETA) is re-engineering several of its program forms. ETA is mainly targeting Temporary Employment Non-immigrant visas including H-1B, H1-B1, and E-3. It has also redesigned forms used for Labor Condition Application such as Form 9089 and ...
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Friday, January 16th, 2009
Recently, Administrative Appeals Office (AAO) overruled an EB-2 denial decision of the Texas Service Center Director. The Director concluded that the beneficiary did not satisfy the minimum education requirement stated on the Labor Certification (LC). Even though ETA Form 9089 (LC) was filed properly and approved by the Dept. of ...
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