USCIS Updates Guidance for O-1 Petitions
An O-1 visa is a visa for individuals with extraordinary abilities in the sciences, arts, education, business, or athletics, or who has demonstrated a record of extraordinary achievement in the film industry. This visa allows a person to live and work in the United States for up to three years and does not offer a…
Read MoreWhat Lawful Permanent Residents Need to Know About Re-Entry Permits
While you are permitted to leave the United States as a lawful permanent resident or green card holder, you are still subject to certain restrictions. Too much travel can disrupt your ability to show continuous residence in the United States, which can threaten your green card status and jeopardize your ability to seek citizenship later.…
Read MoreHow to Get a Work Visa in the United States
There are plenty of great reasons to seek employment in the United States. And the United States certainly needs foreign workers. For example, the US recently announced it will be offering 300,000 temporary work visas for Mexicans and Central Americans. Employers are fast-straining the caps for H-2B visas, the temporary nonagricultural worker visas. All the…
Read MoreHow Do Green Card Renewals Work?
Green cards are the most powerful immigration benefit you can receive, but they don’t last forever. Some are conditional, meaning they last just two years before you must seek an adjustment of status to get those conditions removed. Even “permanent” green cards last just two years. You can renew your green card an unlimited number…
Read MoreHow Immigrants Can Launch a Company in the United States
Founding a start-up in the United States can be a path to lawful permanent residency or even citizenship. For many, getting started will be little more than a matter of choosing the right visa or program and then following the steps to meet certain requirements. Not all of these pathways require you to have a…
Read MoreCan You Buy Your Way into United States Citizenship?
Many of the ways you can go about getting citizenship are tedious, difficult to go through, and uncertain. It may come as no surprise that literally buying your way into United States permanent residency, and eventual citizenship, is one of the easiest ways to get the job done. The EB-5 is the immigrant investment visa.…
Read MoreWhat Immigrants Need to Know About Paying Taxes
Did you know that immigrants need to pay taxes just like citizens? United States law requires even undocumented immigrants to file and pay taxes. Since nobody wants trouble with the IRS, here is what you need to know. Which immigrants must pay taxes? Any immigrant who has earned money while living in the United States…
Read MoreHow to Help a Sibling Enter the United States
The United States does offer a pathway by which a US citizen can file a petition to bring a sibling to the United States as a permanent resident. Siblings are “Fourth Preference” family class immigrants which does mean they could wait a long time before they are allowed to enter the United States or receive…
Read MoreChanges to DACA
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) today announced a notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) that would preserve and fortify the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) policy. DHS will open a 60-day public comment period for the public to submit comments relevant to the proposed rule. The new rule would fully reinstate DACA. Further, it…
Read MoreHow to Sponsor an Immigrant Worker for a Green Card
If you have a valuable employee that you’d like to keep around indefinitely then you can sponsor them for a green card by going through a specific application process. You can only do this for EB visa holders or dual-intent temporary work visa holders like the H1-B, the L-1, and the O-1 work visas. Here’s…
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