H-1B Cap Reached – What Are The Options Now?
THE CAP for the H-1B non-immigrant working visa for the fiscal year (October 1, 2013 to September 30, 2014) has now been reached. The H-1B is one of the most common working visas. As such, with the cap being reached, this leaves many foreign workers in limbo as they are unable to obtain the necessary [...]
UK-US TAX INFORMATION
Do You Feel Persecuted? JUST A FEW months ago, I was writing about the implications of FATCA (Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act), and the probability of your information being provided by UK financial institutions to the IRS. Now, it seems, the goalposts have moved again! Although the reality of FATCA has been looming for a [...]
H-1B Season Again!!!
YOU MAY have thought you heard notes of kumbaya drifting over the air waves from many of the 24-hour news channels. Republicans and Democrats were finally agreeing about something! And that something was Immigration Reform. Comprehensive Reform was supposedly on the horizon. We were told that sweeping changes were on their way. Well don’t hold [...]
March 4 Marks Implementation Of Easier Visa Process For US Citizen Spouses
ON JANUARY 2, 2013, Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano announced the implementation date of a procedural change aimed at reducing the time US citizens are separated from immediate relatives who are seeking to become lawful permanent residents. As discussed in an earlier article, prior to this change, which goes into effect March 4, 2013, [...]
Possibilities for ‘Legal’ Immigration Reform
SEVEN point seven percent unemployment rate, GDP growing at 2.7 percent, and 12 million unemployed in this country. Staggering numbers by any statistical measure. While most of America struggles to find a way out there’s a different story being told in Silicon Valley. The current environment includes two percent unemployment in the technology field, rapid [...]
Immigration In A Second Obama Administration
VIRTUALLY ALL observers were expecting that, if he won a second term, President Obama would come under a great deal of pressure to make a push to fulfill his first-term promise to pass immigration reform. But in the wake of the President’s re-election, immigration reform has momentum far beyond what even the strongest reform advocates [...]
Naturalization And Good Moral Character
RECENTLY, our office has experienced a significant increase in Naturalization clients. Many of these clients meet all the requirements to become a citizen of the United States and should have no problem obtaining their US Citizenship. Unfortunately, not everyone’s case goes as smoothly. A primary obstacle in many cases is the ability to show good [...]
What Do The Candidates Think?
AS WE HEAD into the 2012 Presidential elections immigration remains a prominent issue that both President Obama and Mitt Romney address on a regular basis. It looks like immigration may be a pivotal point in the presidential race. It is clear that President Obama and Governor Romney have differing ideas on how immigration policy should [...]
What’s This New ‘Kiddie Amnesty’ All About?
ON JUNE 15, 2012, President Obama signed an Executive Order implementing a program commonly known as “Deferred Action”. It is less robust than the DREAM Act which did not become law but it addresses the same population, the undocumented that were brought to the US as children. Although there will be some Brits that would [...]
Immigration – Don’t Fail To Plan
YOU KNOW the old saying, “if you fail to plan, you plan to fail”. Being thoughtful about a US immigration strategy is no different. Many foreign nationals sell everything abroad, enter the US as a visitor and subsequent to arrival, start thinking about how they will lawfully remain in the US. In my 27 years [...]
