by Kyle Knapp | Oct 1, 2024 | Uncategorized
The annual Diversity Lottery (i.e. green card lottery) opens this week for the 55,000 visas. The registration period this year is from noon Eastern Daylight Time on October 2, 2024 until noon Eastern Standard Time on November 5, 2024. Each year the U.S. State...
by Kyle Knapp | Sep 1, 2024 | Uncategorized
In mid- and late-August the State Department announced that it had allocated all available employment-based immigrant visas (green cards) for the first and third preference categories. The expectation is that the second preference also will run out before the end of...
by Kyle Knapp | Aug 9, 2024 | Uncategorized
In February 2015 U.S. Department of Homeland Security implemented a new rule to allow certain H-4 dependent spouses of H-1B workers to apply for work authorization. The authorization is called an Employment Authorization Document, or EAD for short. This was a...
by Kyle Knapp | Jul 1, 2024 | Uncategorized
Each year U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services schedules naturalization oath ceremonies around the Fourth of July holiday. This year there will be nearly 200 ceremonies for 11,000 new citizens in the days around the holiday. In recent years, I’ve been posting on...
by Kyle Knapp | Jun 5, 2024 | Uncategorized
In the midst of packing and unpacking boxes while moving to a new home, noncitizens in the U.S. have one more important thing to do: United States immigration laws require noncitizens in the United States to notify U.S. Citizenship and Immigration of a new address...
by Kyle Knapp | May 3, 2024 | Uncategorized
This year’s H-1B lottery registrations saw a 38.6% reduction from last year for the statutory maximum of 85,000 visas for “specialty occupation” workers. The H-1B visa is for professional jobs, for which a specific bachelor’s degree or higher is required. Each federal...
