Rachel Browning’s Legal Blog

            The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service (USCIS) announced today that as of August 14, 2009, it had received approximately 45,000 H-1B cap-subject petitions.  In addition, approximately 20,000 petitions qualifying for the advanced degree cap exemption had been filed. USCIS will therefore continue to accept both cap-subject petitions and advanced degree petitions until a sufficient [...]

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           Once again, the USCIS has announced that it is still accepting filings for H-1B petitions for the fiscal year 2010 program.  As of May 18, 2009, USCIS has received only 45,500 H-1B petitions counting toward the Congressionally-mandated 65,000 cap.  Additionally, the agency has received approximately 20,000 petitions for aliens with advanced degrees, but it [...]

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This week I thought I would start a kind of “series” of blogs on some of the lesser-known visas – both immigrant (permanent) and nonimmigrant (temporary) – that are available to foreign nationals coming to the U.S. and to U.S. companies and organizations seeking to employ them.
While most individuals applying for permanent residency do so [...]

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An E-2 Visa is a temporary nonimmigrant visa that allows a national from a country that has a qualifying treaty of commerce with the United States to come to the U.S. and invest a substantial amount of capital either in a new or existing enterprise.  The attorneys at Smith & Garg have assisted foreign nationals [...]

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The EB-1 “Outstanding Professor or Researcher” category is available to professors and researchers who are recognized internationally as being outstanding in a specific academic area, with an established, peer recognized research record.
To be eligible, the alien must have:

An offer of employment for a tenured or tenure-track position or a comparable “permanent” research position. The U.S. [...]

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