Corporate immigration resources for HR teams

Employee immigration planning involves more than tracking a visa expiration. HR needs visibility into four connected layers: current work authorization, the next temporary status, the immigrant category, and green-card availability.

Consistency is a standard of care. Build global immigration process standardization with one intake, a clear first 48 hours, shared definitions, and a weekly triage so employee confidence does not depend on geography.

If duration of status goes away, your F-1 employees on CPT, OPT, and STEM OPT get a fixed I-94 date instead of open-ended status. Here are direct answers to the questions you are asking, starting with what D/S means and ending with who has to pay for what. Your J-1 employees are covered by the same rule, but the process works differently, so that is addressed separately below.

When an HR manager who ran your immigration program leaves, the usual offboarding checklist misses the parts that create real risk, government portal access, PERM audit files, and visa deadlines that live in someone's head. Here is a practical handover checklist so the transition does not turn into a compliance problem.

On June 23, 2026, the Supreme Court made it easier for border officers to treat a returning green card holder as an applicant for admission based on alleged criminal conduct, without needing to prove it on the spot. It is a low risk issue for most of your workforce. But if any of your green card holders have a past arrest, charge, or conviction, even an old or minor one, this is worth a few minutes of your time before their next trip abroad.

The Supreme Court ruled 6-3 on June 25, 2026 that courts have very limited power to pause TPS terminations. Haiti and Syria TPS ended July 1. For HR leaders, the immediate question is how to respond to affected employees, and the longer-term question is how to build an immigration program that no longer depends on litigation buying time.

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An H-1B employee who moves to a new city without notifying their employer's immigration team is, in most cases, violating the terms of their visa. The employer may not find out until USCIS raises it at the next extension filing, by which point the employee has been out of compliance for months or years. This article explains the rules, the consequences, and what HR should have in place to prevent it.

On June 8, 2026, a federal judge struck down the Trump administration's $100,000 fee on H-1B visas for workers abroad, calling it an unconstitutional tax that only Congress has the authority to impose. If you have been holding back on sponsoring overseas hires because of the fee, here is an honest look at what the ruling actually changes and what it does not.

On June 5, 2026, a federal court struck down four USCIS policies that had frozen work permits, green card applications, and other immigration benefits for nationals of 39 countries. If you have employees whose cases were stuck, processing should now resume. But the picture is different for candidates you are trying to bring in from outside the US.

USCIS is scrutinizing Day-1 CPT history at both the work visa and green card stage. A status violation finding can result in denial and, in some cases, a multi-year bar on re-entering the United States. If you have a foreign national employee on Day-1 CPT, or one considering it after an H-1B lottery loss, this article covers the risks and what HR should do.