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Travel Ban The January 27 Executive Order (EO) “Protecting the Nation from Foreign Terrorist Entry into the United States” remains in effect, and will continue to impact the ability of nonimmigrant nationals of Iraq, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan,… Read More

A leaked draft Executive Order (EO) dated January 23, 2017 and titled “Protecting American Jobs and Workers by Strengthening the Integrity of Foreign Worker Visa Programs” appears aimed at gutting many employment based non-immigrant visa… Read More

A leaked draft presidential Executive Order (EO) entitled “Protecting the Nation from Terrorist Attacks by Foreign Nationals” would implement the “extreme vetting” President Trump has urged, and would potentially create substa… Read More

Trump will nominate Andrew Puzder as Secretary of Labor. He’s currently CEO of CKE Restaurants, which owns Hardee’s and other fast food restaurant chains. In a June 2015 Wall Street Journal op-ed he gave his views on employment-based immi… Read More

President Elect Donald Trump has nominated retired Marine General John F. Kelly as Secretary of Homeland Security. If confirmed by the Senate, he would be responsible for formulating and implementing the incoming Administration’s immigration po… Read More

President-Elect Trump announced in a November 21 video (at 1:58) his intent to issue an Executive Order directing the Secretary of Labor to “investigate all abuses of visa programs that undercut the American worker.” Trump offered no elab… Read More

USCIS just issued final rules with many fixes in the skilled worker visa categories. Big stuff. The rules will take effect on January 17, 2017, before the Trump Adminiistration comes into office. Here is a copy of the text of the USCIS Final Order, i… Read More

The State Department’s December 2016 Visa Bulletin projects increased demand for employment based visas in the coming months. State expects to reduce availability of the EB-2 Advanced Degree and Exceptional Ability category “no later than… Read More