By Cyrus D. Mehta & Kaitlyn Box* Although the Trump era has ended, some of its draconian immigration policies continue to linger, including the COVID travel bans. On January 25, 2021, President Biden issued Presidential Proclamation 10143, entitled “Proclamation on the Suspension of Entry as Immigrants and Non-Immigrants of Certain Additional Persons Who Pose a […]
On February 10, 2021, the Department of State (DOS) announced that certain business travelers, investors, treaty traders, academics, students, and journalists may qualify for national interest exceptions under the Presidential Proclamation (PP) covering travelers from the Schengen Area, United Kingdom (UK), and Ireland. Qualified travelers who are applying for or have valid visas or Electronic […]
By Cyrus D. Mehta On January 25, 2021, President Biden signed an executive order entitled the Future is Made in All of America by All of America’s Workers. This executive order revokes Trump’s Buy American Hire American Executive Order (BAHA), 13788, of April 18, 2017. Although President Biden’s Buy American executive order requires government agencies […]
By Cyrus D. Mehta & Kaitlyn Box* There is much for all of us to be excited about after President Biden’s inauguration on January 20, 2021 when he aggressively rescinded many of Trump’s most damaging immigration actions. We were also relieved to wake up on Saturday morning to find that there was no Friday midnight […]
By Cyrus D. Mehta & Kaitlyn Box* Although President Trump is on his way out, his administration has promulgated two new rules that will have a devastating impact on the H-1B visa program and legal immigration. Reissuance of DOL Wage Rule On January 12, 2021 the Department of Labor (DOL) published an advance copy of […]
By Cyrus D. Mehta & Kaitlyn Box* On the last day of 2020, Trump issued a Presidential Proclamation extending two previous Proclamations – Proclamation 10014 (Suspension of Entry of Immigrants Who Present a Risk to the United States Labor Market During the Economic Recovery Following the 2019 Novel Coronavirus Outbreak) and Proclamation 10052 (Suspension of […]
Thank you for reading and supporting The Insightful Immigration Blog. Listed below are the top 10 most viewed blogs that were published in 2020. While these are the 10 most viewed blogs, each blog is a carefully crafted gem, and we invite you to read all of them. Blogs from previous years continued to be widely […]
By Cyrus D. Mehta & Kaitlyn Box* On December 16, 2020, the Ninth Circuit issued its opinion in Innova Solutions, Inc. v. Baran, which involved a technology company, Innova, that wanted to hire an Indian employee in the specialty occupation of Computer Programmer, and filed an H-1B petition on his behalf. Innova Solutions, Inc. v. […]
The Department of Justice’s complaint claiming that Facebook discriminated against US workers even when it followed DOL regulations for sponsoring foreign national workers is troubling. It renders every employer vulnerable to charges of discrimination each time it files a labor certification on behalf of a foreign national worker. When an employer wishes to sponsor a […]
On November 18, 2020, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) updated policy guidance to clarify the circumstances when the agency would find applicants ineligible for naturalization because they were not lawfully admitted for permanent residence. “Applicants are ineligible for naturalization if they obtained lawful permanent residence (LPR) status in error, by fraud or otherwise not […]
