IMMIGRATION NEWS

The application period for H1-B US visa petitions for fiscal year 2018 begins today, Monday, April 3rd, 2017. H1-B is a popular non-immigrant visa program that grants high-skilled professionals especially in the tech industry visas to work in the US.   A total of 85,000 H1-B visas…

U.S. Immigration officers arrested five people on Wednesday in Lawrence, New Hampshire when they showed up for green card interviews at the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) office, reports WBUR radio in Boston. At least three of those arrested were in the process of becoming…

A federal judge in Hawaii on Wednesday extended indefinitely his order blocking President Donald Trump’s travel ban. Judge Derrick Watson extended a hold on the travel ban indefinitely until the state’s lawsuit is settled. The state of Hawaii had argued that Trump’s executive order discriminates…

The application period for H1-B US visa petitions for  fiscal year 2018 begins next week, Monday, April 3rd, 2017. H1-B is a popular non-immigrant visa program that grants high-skilled professionals especially in the tech industry visas to work in the US.   medianet_width='300';…

The Canadian government has postponed the date travelers to Canada will need to comply with new requirements. The new requirement, which had been scheduled to take effect September 30th but has now been pushed to November 10th, 2016, requires some foreign nationals traveling to Canada or transiting…