Employers spend a lot of money sponsoring highly skilled foreign nationals on H-1B visas, and their costs continue to rise. Costs are of increasing importance during the tightened control over the recruitment of highly qualified foreign nationals, especially given that on April 1, 2019, the Service ...
Every year on April 1, trucks line up at US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) pick-up points to deliver countless pallets loaded with paperwork. This is how the annual H-1B work visa application season begins. Employers submit hundreds of thousands of paper applications ...
President Donald Trump has said he is open to negotiating citizenship for high-skilled visa holders known as H1-B. This social media post came as the White House is negotiating with Democrats in Congress to ...
The United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced on December 12 that the number of applications for an H-2B work visa for the first half of fiscal 2019 exceeded the norm set by the US Congress. On December 6, the application deadline for everyone who intends to start ...
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) released a draft law on November 30 that will require applicants applying for H-1B work visas to register electronically with the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service (USCIS). In line with the proposed changes ...
The United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has released a memo clarifying the requirements for companies to hire employees on an L-1 visa. In particular, the organization applying for the visa must employ the main recipient of the L-1 visa in one of its branches in another ...
This software developer has given up everything familiar to ensure financial stability for his family in the future. After flying to the United States in 2014 for his master's degree, Srinath Cattula not only got on a plane for the first time. For the first time in his life he was separated from ...
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the Department of Labor (DOL) have jointly drafted legislative changes that, if adopted, would modernize the requirements for employers to hire foreign workers on an H-2B visa and make it easier for American workers to find and fill these jobs. ...
In Soviet times, leaving for America was not easy. Among those who managed to get out were the poet Joseph Brodsky, dancer Mikhail Baryshnikov and future Google founder Sergey Brin. In the early 90s tens of thousands of Russians received the status of political refugees. Mostly scientists left here ...
There are many articles on how to move to work in the USA, but advice from those who have personal experience looking for a job in America is always more valuable than dry theory. The author of these tips has just such experience. Evgeny Trapeznikov shares several ...