Corporate immigration resources for HR teams

What's changing?U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) announced on May 04, 2023, that they will allow employers until Aug 30, 2023, to reach compliance with Form I-9 in-person verification requirements. The pandemic rule that allowed employers to verify form I-9 virtually ends on July 31, 2023. Important deadlines for in-Person or physical verificationPandemic-era Form I-9 flexibility ends: July 31, 2023Deadline to comply with in-person I-9 verification: Aug 30, 2023 What's the rule aro

B-1 visa is for foreign nationals who want to travel to the US for business purposes. This article talks about requirements and exemptions.

Employees on visas may not quite understand all the nuances of the US healthcare system and so won't think about health coverage.

Selected or Not selected in 2023 (FY2024) H-1B lottery. Let's see what option do you have and the next steps that you can take.

USCIS says that the two biggest errors that they see employers make are: Creating wrong type of account & Multiple entries for same employee

USCIS announced on January 27, 2023 that the H-1B lottery registration for 2023 (Fiscal Year 2024) will open on March 01, 2023. Details here

In 2020, USCIS (the agency that oversees U.S. immigration) revised the process of registering foreign national employees for the H-1B lottery. The old process required employers to submit the full petition in order to register an employee for the lottery. Starting 2020, USCIS implemented electronic registration process for companies where an employee can simply be registered with a few personal details. Once selected in the lottery, a full petition is then filed to get a visa for the employee. S

With the lottery season fast approaching, a lot of foreign national employees are looking to understand what it takes to get through the lottery and to file a successful petition with USCIS. Why does H-1B selection happen via lottery? The short answer is because there are more people applying for the H-1B visa than there are visas available. The U.S. government opens 85,000 new H-1B visas every year and there are nearly four times visa applications that are received. So, because of the lack of a

With the lottery season fast approaching, a lot of foreign national employees are looking to understand what it takes to get through the lottery and to file a successful petition with USCIS. Why does H-1B selection happen via lottery? The short answer is because there are more people applying for the H-1B visa than there are visas available. The U.S. government opens 85,000 new H-1B visas every year and there are nearly four times visa applications that are received. So, because of the lack of a

With the lottery season fast approaching, a lot of foreign national employees are looking to understand what it takes to get through the lottery and to file a successful petition with USCIS. Why does H-1B selection happen via lottery? The short answer is because there are more people applying for the H-1B visa than there are visas available. The U.S. government opens 85,000 new H-1B visas every year and there are nearly four times visa applications that are received. So, because of the lack of a

Foreign national employee's H-1B is bound by the work address and job role. Any change in one of these variables, requires H-1B amendment.

If laid off, foreign national employees have a limited time to either find a job or change status, or they risk running out of status.