Entrepreneur Parole Rule as of December 14, 2017 On December 14, 2017, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced that it would start accepting applications for parole under the International Entrepreneur Rule (IER) in compliance with National Venture Capital Association v. Duke. Entrepreneurs should be cautiously optimistic since USCIS also stated in the same announcement that it is…
H-4 EAD in Jeopardy Since May 2015, certain H-4 spouses of H-1B principals who have an approved I-140 have been able to apply for employment authorization pursuant to the Employment Authorization for Certain H-4 Dependent Spouses rule. This rule has since been under attack through a legal challenge in the Courts. We have recently learned…
Trump Administration Backs Down After H-1B New Years’ Eve Scare On December 30, 2017, the McClatchy DC Bureau reported that the Trump Administration was seeking to restrict H-1B visa extensions beyond the six-year limitation through a re-interpretation of the AC21 rules. After an apparent realization that such a move was ill-conceived, subject to strong reactions from the…