As background, the Administrative Appeals Office (AAO) issued a decision which reverts the H-1 and LCA requirements to their original form from the early 1990s.  Specifically, if an H-1 employee is transferred to a new location, and that location is not listed on the original LCA filed with DOL before the original I-129 was filed[…]

Just as a reminder, on April 9, 2015, the Administrative Appeals Office (AAO) issued an important decision which significantly changed the process and requirements for H-1 employees who change locations. More accurately, the AAO decision was really a return to the requirements which were in place from the early 1990s until a series of INS/CIS[…]

With the Spring comes the annual CIS attempts to make something simple as confusing as possible. In its most recent press release about the upcoming April 1 filing period (which it again will illegally stretch into a five day filing period), CIS raises the issue of filing the H-1 case using premium processing and paying[…]

The President’s Executive Order regarding “illegal aliens” in the US has finally been clarified and it looks like, as was stated at the beginning, no one is being legalized or being given amnesty.  We know that many anti-immigration groups wanted to use this “amnesty” against the President but that ignores the fact that the President[…]