June 2019 Visa Bulletin Commentary
The June 2019 Visa Bulletin was just released. Most jarring was the massive retrogression that occurred for the EB1 India category, which retrogressed an astonishing 2 years, 1 month, and[…]
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May 2019 Visa Bulletin Commentary
The May 2019 Visa Bulletin was just released. EB1 all countries is disappointingly still not current, and shows no signs of becoming so any time soon. However, the date for[…]
April 2019 Visa Bulletin Commentary
The April 2019 Visa Bulletin was just released. Below are the new priority dates. Once again, it is very disappointing to see that EB1 all countries is still not current,[…]
March 2019 Visa Bulletin Commentary
The March 2019 Visa Bulletin was released last Friday. Below are the new priority dates. It was disappointing to see that EB1 all countries is still not current, and the priority[…]
November 2017 Visa Bulletin
The November 2017 Visa Bulletin was released this morning. Most notably, the potentially monthly movement was less than anticipated in the October 2017 visa bulletin. November 2017 For all countries[…]
July 2015 Visa Bulletin Is Out
The Department of State released the July 2015 Visa Bulletin. Our usual commentary to follow but headline is that Philippines EB3 and EB4 is unavailable. Stay tuned.
Visa Guru Charlie Oppenheim Agrees There Are Unused Visas
As many of my readers will know, over the summer there was much discussion about whether there were unused visas and whethey they could be recaptured. Various newspapers had reported[…]
Why We Need Start-Up Visa Laws for Immigrant Entrepreneurs
The below article was originally published on Watson Immigration Law Blog on December 5th. The article drew attention from Yahoo! News, The San Francisco Chronicle, The Boston Globe, International Business Times, San Jose Mercury News,[…]
Why We need Startup Visa laws for Immigrant Entrepreneurs
Why We need Startup Visa laws for Immigrant Entrepreneurs – Tahmina Watson, immigration attorney With the recent election, America’s voters have placed renewed trust in President Obama, and immigration remains[…]
Visa Office Update on Priority Dates and Demand (Updated 6/28/12)
Copied from AILA: (I have made pertinent EB2 information in bold) Cite as “AILA InfoNet Doc. No. 12012349 (posted Jun. 28, 2012)” On Tuesday, June 19, 2012, Roberta Freedman, AILA[…]