Things You Should Know When Applying For a H-1B Visa One of the most common and highly sought after U.S. work visas is the H1B visa. Every year on April 1 the U.S. government makes available 85,000 new H-1B visas. Of the 85,000 spots made available every year, 20,000 are allocated to the “advanced degree […]
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Lightman Founder Contributes To Gigaom Immigration Discussion Lightman Law Firm founder and principal attorney, Douglas Lightman, recently contributed to the Gigaom.com article, “Can Facebook help immigrants prove their presence in the US?” Mr. Lightman commented on the type of documents that immigrants can (and should) provide during the deferred action application process. These documents (as well as social media) are meant to prove […]
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Explanation of the Executive Action As a preliminary note, it is important to understand that the strategy proposed by the President in his speech on November 20, 2014, is categorized as an executive action, not an executive order. Executive actions are a set of policy goals set forth by the President, applied to agencies and […]
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Barack Obama’s Immigration Reform Proposals Last night President Obama announced a bold executive action aimed directly at reforming and expanding current immigration policy. Following a lack of action on behalf of Congress to propose comprehensive reform, President Obama laid out a series of defined and targeted actions that would change the face of immigration policy […]
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Selecting an Immigration Lawyer for Your H-1B Visa Application With 85,000+ new H1B visas provided each year by USCIS and thousands of other individuals in H1B status or subject to the H1B cap, there are easily hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of searches for a suitable H1B visa immigration lawyers by individuals and employers throughout […]
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The E-3 visa is a 2-year nonimmigrant US work visa that is exclusively for citizens of Australia. The visa allows Australian nationals to work for a sponsoring US company in a “specialty occupation” role. Although the visa is capped at 10,500 a year, it has never filled up. Intro Unlike some other types of work […]
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