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USCIS extends EAD authorization to 540 days

© Farhad Sethna, attorney, 2024 On December 6, 2024, the USCIS issued a final rule, making certain categories of EAD (employment authorization document) eligible for a further 540 day extension. […]

December 17, 2024 Farhad Sethna
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Want to be an entrepreneur? OPT options for students

© Farhad Sethna, Attorney, 2024 In late December, 2023, the USCIS put out chapter 5, “Practical Training”, in its policy manual under volume 2, part F, “Students”. The entire practice […]

June 3, 2024 Farhad Sethna
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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“ […]

May 13, 2024 Farhad Sethna
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USCIS Mandates Use of New Employment Eligibility Verification – Form I-9

Effective November 1, 2023 all employers must use the revised form I-9, which can be found on the USCIS website. The form has an “edition date” of August 1, 2023 […]

November 13, 2023 Farhad Sethna
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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 […]

November 4, 2020 Farhad Sethna
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Practical effects of the Supreme Court’s DACA decision

© Farhad Sethna 2020 On June 18, 2020, the Supreme Court issued a decision that will certainly stay written into the history of DACA forever. On that day, a 5 […]

June 21, 2020 Farhad Sethna
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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 […]

January 31, 2019 Farhad Sethna
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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 […]

December 9, 2018 Farhad Sethna

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