December 5, 2011

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced that it has received a sufficient number of H-1B petitions to reach the statutory numerical limit (cap) of 65,000 for fiscal year (FY) 2012. ... [read more]

The Department of Labor's Office of Foreign Labor Certification recently announced that PERM and H-1B prevailing wage determinations are now current. H-2B prevailing wage determinations are expected to become current imminently. ... [read more]

On November 22, 2011, the Department of Justice and several other agencies filed suit against Utah's new immigration-related law, after similar recent lawsuits against Arizona, Alabama, and South Carolina's laws. ... [read more]

The Department of State's Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, which administers the exchange visitor (J visa) program, seeks comments on a new Summer Work Travel Job Placement Verification Form. ... [read more]

Secretary of State Clinton and Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov exchanged diplomatic notes during their November 19, 2011, meeting in Bali on the new agreement on visas announced on July 13, 2011. ... [read more]

The Department of State recently identified difficulties with its Consolidated Consular Database (CCD) communications with the Student and Exchange Visitor Program's (SEVP) Student and Exchange Visitor Information System. ... [read more]

The Department of Labor's Office of the Inspector General (OIG) has identified maintaining the integrity of foreign labor certification programs among the "most serious management and performance challenges facing the Department." ... [read more]

November 6, 2011, marked the 25th anniversary of the passage of the Immigration Reform and Control Act, which created the Department of Justice's Office of Special Counsel for Immigration-Related Unfair Employment Practices (OSC). To mark the occasion, OSC issued a commemorative newsletter featuring OSC's enforcement, policy, and outreach trends and antidiscrimination efforts. ... [read more]

USCIS video: USCIS is developing a Web-based system to allow applicants to submit and track their applications online and enhance USCIS’s ability to process cases with greater accuracy, security, and timeliness. ... [read more]