The $100,000 question: to pay or not?
© Attorney Farhad Sethna, 2025 The presidential proclamation of September 19, 2025, which sent a lot of H-1b employers and H-1b beneficiaries into a tizzy, seems to be resolved, at […]
Making sense of the “H-1b Proclamation”
© Attorney Farhad Sethna, 2025 On September 19, 2025, President Donald Trump issued a proclamation titled “Restriction on Entry of Certain Non-Immigrant Workers“, where he targeted H-1b workers. This article […]
MAGA reaction forecasts dim future for immigrant skilled workers
© Farhad Sethna, Attorney, 2025, all rights reserved. Right after Christmas, 2024, DOGE co-executives Musk and Ramaswamy pronounced that H-1B workers were critical to the high-tech industry in the […]
The US is turning away thousands of talented foreign workers — it doesn’t have to be this way
I have said this for many years: immigration laws, and Congress in ability and willingness to make positive changes to immigration or crippling our own country. Where is the “Maga“ […]
DOL and USCIS team up to gut H1B program
The USDOL (Department of Labor), and the USCIS – an agency of the Department of Homeland Security – have teamed up to effectively gut the H1B specialty worker program. In […]
78 pages and $1760
78 pages and $1760 © Attorney Farhad Sethna, 2020 __________________________________________________________________________ Yes. That’s right. 78 pages and $1760. That is how much it would take in terms of the application forms […]
More USCIS stupidity on the H-1b process
by Farhad Sethna, Attorney Remember I wrote just a short while ago that USCIS was going to “streamline” the H-1b process by permitting H-1b applications to be “pre-selected” for […]
USCIS defers H-1b selection rule – for now
by Farhad Sethna, Attorney The USCIS has deferred for one year at least – the proposed pre-filing H-1b selection rule that I wrote about earlier on this blog. Under that […]