WR Immigration Director of Visa Consulting Charlie Oppenheim, Partner Charina Garcia, and Senior Associate Laura Bloniarz update HR professionals with the latest information from the January 2024 Visa Bulletin. They dive into an analysis of employment-based and family-based immigrant visa categories, 2024 predictions and an extensive Q&A session from live attendees and submitted questions. Watch below!
WR Immigration attorneys Miki Kawashima Matrician, Melissa Harms, and Julie Galvin continue the conversation offering the latest winning immigration strategies for HR professionals. This time our team discusses U.S. Green Cards strategies and how employers in the biotech industry and how they can adapt their immigration program accordingly. Topics Covered Include:
The U.S. Department of State (“DOS”) recently released the October 2022 Visa Bulletin, and it showed two new developments for EB-5 investors: (1) priority date retrogression of the 5th Unreserved Final Action Date (“FAD”) for China-mainland born from December 22, 2015 to March 22, 2015, and (2) creation of a 5th Unreserved FAD for India of November 8, 2019. The FAD has remained current for all other countries in the EB-5 Unreserved categories, and for all countries in the EB-5 “Set-Aside” categories. USCIS also announced that it will accept employment-based adjustment of status applications with priority dates that are earlier than the Dates for Filing (“DFF”) listed in the Department of State’s October Visa Bulletin. The 5th Unreserved DFF is January 1, 2016 for China-mainland born and is December 8, 2019 for India. For Indian nationals in the United States, this will not prevent many from applying for adjustment of status because nearly all Form I-526s were filed before the now-vacated EB-5 Immigrant Investor Program Modernization regulations that became effective date on November 21, 2019. For China-mainland EB-5 investors abroad, however, the large retrogression is surprising, especially given the amount of visa numbers available in FYs 2021 and 2022 that […]
