Immigration Update with Lin Walker – USCIS Increases Costs for U.S Employers with its New Asylum Program Fee
On January 31st, USCIS published a new fee schedule (89 FR 6194), which will take effect on April 1, 2024, and significantly impact most employment-based petitions.Most notably, the new fee…
Immigration Update with Lin Walker – USCIS is Disconnected from Reality
There seems to be a disconnect between the USCIS Policy Manual for National Interest Waivers (NIWs) and the real-world.The Policy Manual states, “USCIS recognizes the importance of progress in STEM…
Immigration Update with Lin Walker – O-1B Part 1: Why Do People Get This O-1B Criterion Wrong?
For those of you considering viable options to the H-1B cap we will be doing a deep-dive into the O-1B and O-1A criteria over the next couple of weeks.One of…
Immigration Update with Lin Walker – O-1B Deep Dive Part 2: What Constitutes National Or International Recognition?
Part two of our six-part deep dive into the O-1B visa.The USCIS regulations for the O-1B visa require evidence that the foreign national “has achieved national or international recognition for…
Immigration Update with Lin Walker – O-1B Deep Dive Part 3: How to distinguish lead, starring or critical role
Today is part three of our six-part deep dive into the O-1B visa. You can go back to our last two episodes to catch up if you missed them. This…
Immigration Update with Lin Walker – O-1B Deep Dive Part 4: What does “Major commercial or critically acclaimed successes” mean?
The USCIS O-1B criterion at 8 CFR §214.2(o)(3)(iv)(B)(4) requires evidence that the artist “has a record of major commercial or critically acclaimed successes as evidenced by such indicators as title,…
Immigration Update with Lin Walker – O-1B Deep Dive Part 5: Achievements from organizations, critics, government agencies or other recognized experts
One criterion for the O-1B requires evidence that the artist “has received significant recognition for achievements from organizations, critics, government agencies, or other recognized experts in the field in which…
21st Annual Immigration Law & Policy Conference
This year's Immigration Law and Policy Conference, organized by MPI, Catholic Legal Immigration Network, Inc., and the Georgetown University Law Center, will be on Monday, September 30. The in-person conference…
Inmigrantes de la República Dominicana en Estados Unidos
Click here to read this article in English. Mientras que los inmigrantes de la República Dominicana representan solo el 3 por ciento de un total de 46.2 millones de inmigrantes…
Immigration Update with Lin Walker – O-1B Deep Dive Part 6: What does “commanded a high salary or will command a high salary” mean?
In this episode of our series we are going to talk about the USCIS criterion for an O-1B that requires evidence that the artist “has either commanded a high salary…