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 […]
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“ […]
US Citizenship Act 2021 – A Summary of Selected sections in point form
Dear Reader: PLEASE NOTE – each and every clause of the new bill is NOT discussed below – this summary is of the clauses that I thought were relevant and […]
Proof of Financial Ability-Form I-944
Form I-944 is a new USCIS form. It came into effect on February 24, 2020, under the presidential proclamation issued by Trump, calling for the USCIS to scrutinize all US […]
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 […]
Pre-Registration for H-1b applications? How will it help?
By Farhad Sethna, Attorney, © 2018 The USCIS published a notice on November 30, 2018 in the Federal Register stating that it would select H-1b cases to process through a […]
USCIS warning that CAP-GAP coverage ends September 30
by Farhad Sethna, Attorney, © 2018 The USCIS announced yesterday (September 28, 2018) that F-1 students who had applied for a Change of Status to H-1b under the FY 2019 quota […]
International Entrepreneur Rule Dies
© Farhad Sethna, Attorney, 2018 We already knew this, but in the current administration, talk is cheap. The goal of this administration, and the platform on which the president ran […]