After the news that U.S. consulates are going to start reopening around the world, ...
Trump Administration to Implement a Slate of Final Immigration Rules in Last 10 Days
January 14, 2021
Will Trump stick it to the H-1B as he walks out the White House Door?
December 18, 2020
How Start-up Entrepreneurs Can Win a National Interest Waiver Green Card
December 16, 2020
Great News for H-1B Visas: Old Prevailing Wages Restored Today
December 8, 2020
LATEST H-1B NEWS! Judge throws out Trump Administration’s Interim Final Rule restricting H-1B visas!
December 3, 2020
Biden Appoints First Immigrant to Head Homeland Security
December 1, 2020
Which U.S. Visas Will Be Impacted Between the Trump and Biden Administrations?
November 17, 2020
How Will Biden’s Business Immigration Policy Differ from Trump’s?
November 10, 2020
3 Lawsuits Against Trump’s Devastating H-1B Regulations
November 5, 2020
Will Trump’s Increased Wages and Restrictions on H-1B Visas Hold Up In Court?
October 16, 2020
How You Can Downgrade Your Approved I-140 from an EB-2 to an EB3
October 13, 2020
Trump Sends Tech Jobs Overseas Under New H-1B Rule
October 8, 2020
BREAKING: Trump restricts H-1B Visas… AGAIN! (October 6, 2020)
October 7, 2020
USCIS Premium Processing Expanded & Cost Increased
October 6, 2020
DHS Withdraws Revisions to H1B and Other Visas
October 5, 2020
Breaking News: Trump Travel Ban, H-1B Rules & Fingerprints on Visas
September 18, 2020
Is Trump’s Proclamation Precluding H-1B, L-1 and Other Visas Lawful?
September 15, 2020
Trump to Further Restrict H-1B and Other Non-Immigrant Visas in NEW Proclamation
September 12, 2020
Trump’s Travel and Visa Bans: 7 Tips to Get A National Interest Exemption
August 27, 2020
TECH INDUSTRY: 5 Tips On Winning O-1 Visa or EB-1 Green Card
August 19, 2020
H-1B and L-1 Visa Restrictions Relaxed: Exceptions to the Travel Ban
August 14, 2020
Older Posts
Many people have been in touch with OnlineVisas to ask “Which U.S. consulates are ...
OnlineVisas CEO and Lead Attorney of Velie Law Firm, Jon Velie, summarizes the six ...
How will the recent Trump immigration ban affect you? OnlineVisas’ CEO Jon Velie answers ...
On Monday, June 22, 2020, President Trump issued a “Proclamation Suspending Entry of Aliens ...
Trump Immigration Breaking News: On Friday June 05, 2020, the Whitehouse, Department of Labor ...
On May 29, 2020, Donald Trump issued a presidential proclamation that will make it ...
We are in the midst of the ongoing COVID-19 crisis. There are always opportunities ...
As an immigration attorney, here is my take on Trump Immigration Plan for the ...
During these testing times with the on-going coronavirus crisis, the U.S. stands to benefit ...
Immigration continues to be a political football amidst COVID-19, and U.S. visa holders have ...
People across the United States have started to receive their COVID-19 stimulus checks, but ...
Dear Friends and Clients,Many of you have asked us about the below tweet from ...
Good news! If you are a non-immigrant with an SSN and have filed your ...
USCIS has the power to help U.S. employers and lawfully admitted foreign nationals to ...
A stable agricultural and non-agricultural workforce is essential for minimizing any disruption in the ...
On March 31, 2020, The Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) announced that it ...
The U.S. health care system is being exhausted as the COVID-19 pandemic continues to ...
On March 30, 2020, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services announced that due to the ...
On March 26, 2020, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services responded to the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic ...
USCIS has temporarily adjusted rules for the filing of I-9 forms during the national ...
Many employers have responded to the COVID-19 pandemic by adopting on-the-fly remote work policies, ...
Easing certain immigration restrictions can help solve medical, agricultural and economic problems as #COVID19 ...
Many employers have responded to the COVID-19 pandemic by adopting on-the-fly remote work policies, ...
USCIS has not changed the March 20, 2020 deadline for filing registrations for the ...
On February 6, 2020, universities and international students prevailed in a legal battle when ...
International students face more difficulties as U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) continues to ...
OnlineVisas Immigration News blog made the cut for Feedspot’s Top 75 Immigration Blogs. The ...
The U.S. Supreme Court made a ruling in favor of lifting nationwide injections placed ...
The number of approvals for H-1B visa petitions has plummeted in recent years, and ...
The Trump administration is most likely to continue eroding the foundation of immigration that ...
USCIS announced that it has successfully completed pilot testing for the new digital pre-registration ...
Since Indian “techies” are the primary recipients of H-1B visas, IT companies are being ...
The EB2 visa (or EB2 Green Card) is for employment-based “exceptional” ability (first preference) or ...
When a company is hiring an attorney, they are typically meeting prospects in person. ...
It is no secret that the current administration frequently bypasses Congress and issues policy ...
The H-1B is a merit-based visa that has been at the forefront of the ...
On October 11, 2019, a federal judge in New York issued an injunction blocking ...
To date, the Trump administration has taken no positive action toward the H-1B visa ...
Simply operating a company in America today comes with the risk of being targeted ...
How businesses approach legal immigration can determine whether or not they are able to ...
“Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The ...
The EB-5 visa category was developed by the United States Congress in 1990 to ...
The United States is the entertainment hub of the world. Americans spend more money ...
The tech industry in the United States plays a critical role in determining economic ...
The United States is home to many popular and emerging sports. The United States ...
Most Americans agree that one of the major benefits of immigration is the rich ...
In this episode, Jon Velie and Dave Kelso examine Lennon’s immigration battle and the ...
Would Melania be able to enter the country under a new merit-based immigration system ...
The House Judiciary Committee cleared three critical bills that went seemingly unnoticed as tension ...
The highly contested H-4 EAD work ban affecting the spouses of H-1B visa holders ...
To ensure the President cannot appoint anyone he likes, the Director of USCIS has ...
Donald Trump signed off on White House Advisor Jared Kushner’s immigration plan and turned ...
As H-1B visa receipts trickle in, here is a recap of the 2019 filing ...
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the Department of Labor (DOL) have released ...
The L1 visa is an intra-company transfer work visa that allows a U.S. company to transfer ...
Updated legislation for the Regional Center Program that focuses on the EB-5 Immigrant Investor ...
On Monday, April 8, 2019, U.S. District Judge Richard Seeborg in San Francisco blocked ...
The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced a new two-phased procedure for premium ...
The Trump administration is deliberately focusing the national immigration debate around the southern border ...
The O-1 visa is a non-immigrant U.S. visa for people who demonstrate extraordinary ability ...
Knowing which documents to submit for an H-1B visa petition is important. Equally important, ...
In just one year, the backlog of applications submitted to the United States Citizen ...
As tensions surrounding U.S. immigration system, the border wall and its funding mount, here ...
With the unpredictable yet consistent changes to the H-1B visa process, many employers and ...
On January 30th, 2019, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) published a final rule ...
The possibility of building a stable future makes Canada a viable prospect for U.S. ...
The policy disagreements over border wall funding as a solution to a broken immigration ...
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) published a Notice of Proposed Rule Making titled ...
There are three clear reasons why there is a longer processing time for H-1B ...
As Congress continues working on updating the legislation, authorization for the Regional Center program ...
The USCIS has recently clarified that L-1 employees must meet the one-year foreign work ...
As attacks on the H-1B visa continue, the current administration is now looking to tighten ...
Well it’s happened folks! America managed to top Orwell’s Hate Week. On Wednesday, a ...
To say that immigration is “good for America” should arouse patriotic fervor but it ...
Transitioning from F-1 to H-1B is becoming increasingly complicated. International students seeking employment after ...
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is committed to enacting more regulation that limits ...
On November 9, 2018, the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services issued new procedural guidance ...
The Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) fall agenda proposes major changes to the H-1B ...
An EB1 visa category is a group of highly sought-after permanent residency green cards ...
The new USCIS policy, effective Sept. 11, 2018, grants immigration officials the ability to ...
On October 1, 2018, USCIS Policy Memorandum 602-0050.1 will go into effect expanding the conditions under ...
No one can say for certain what exactly is going to happen to the ...
Merit-based immigration is primarily associated with the H1-B visa program, however, there are alternative ...
In an update of the January 2010 Neufeld memo, USCIS has released Policy Memorandum ...
The start date for filing H-1B petitions for the fiscal year 2019 is fast ...
In accordance with the Buy American, Hire American executive order and in an attempt ...
The Protect and Grow American Jobs Act is a Misnomer. It will Cost Americans’ ...
The White House is currently considering a rule change the H-1B visa program which ...
In a rare bipartisan decision on immigration, the Congressional House Judiciary Committee has unanimously ...
A new document released from the Department of Homeland Security entitled “Registration Requirement for ...
The US Administration has staged several high-profile attempts to legal immigration in the past ...
According to Senator Jerry Moran (R-KS), “New business formation and the rate of entrepreneurship ...
According to the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, immigrants are almost twice as likely as ...
U.S. Senators David Purdue and Tom Cotton’s bill Reforming American Immigration for Strong Economy ...
California Rep. Darrell Issa has ramped up his effort to present legislation which will ...
Earlier this month, Cleveland Federal Reserve President Loretta Mester made a speech to the ...
On November 2nd, Eric Schmidt, CEO of Google Parent company Alphabet Inc., praised Canada’s ...
In 2013, Kevin Hassett, who is now chair of the Trump Administration Council of ...
The baby boomer generation is composed of persons born between 1946 and 1964. They ...