Trump’s Victory Speech – November 9, 2016
By Farhad Sethna, Attorney ©2016 At 2:37 in the morning, on November 9, 2016, president elect Donald Trump gave his victory speech following what can be termed – at the […]
Professional Immigration to SE Asia – a Comparative Analysis
By Farhad Sethna, Attorney © 2016 Reporting live again from the American Bar Association International Law Section’s conference on the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) in Tokyo, Japan, here is Farhad […]
TransPacific Partnership (TPP): Myth or Reality?
By Farhad Sethna, Attorney © 2016 Reporting live from the American Bar Association’s International Law Section Fall Meeting, In Tokyo, I want to report on the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP). […]
USCIS ANNOUNCES FEE INCREASE
By Attorney Farhad Sethna © 2016 In a notice published on Wednesday, May 4, 2016, in the Federal Register (the official publication of the United States Government), the USCIS proposed […]
NEW “STEM-OPT” RULES- A MIXED BAG
By Attorney Farhad Sethna © 2016 All Rights Reserved Background: Last year, a group of aggrieved US citizens filed a complaint in federal court alleging that the Department of Labor […]
L-1A VISAS – Small companies, don’t bother applying
By Attorney Farhad Sethna © 2016 All Rights Reserved Despite all the public announcements about increasing investment in the USA and encouraging entrepreneurship, the USCIS seems hellbent on reversing the […]
Coaches may self-petition as EB-1 Extraordinary Ability Aliens
By Attorney Farhad Sethna © 2016 In Matter of K-S-Y-, the Administrative Appeals Office of the USCIS held on March 9, 2016 that an individual who applied for classification as […]
SAN BERNARDINO KILLINGS WILL MAKE FIANCÉ VISAS HARDER
By Attorney Farhad Sethna © 2015 It should be no surprise that the San Bernardino killings will make it harder to get fiancé (and family-based) visa approvals. On December 2, 2015, Tashfeen […]