USCIS Photo Update
© Farhad Sethna, Attorney, 2025 The USCIS has issued new guidance regarding photographs. Under the new guidance, if the USCIS has photographs that were taken less than three years ago […]
Visa applications in India seriously delayed
© Attorney Farhad Sethna, 2025 If anyone is thinking of travelling to India now to get their H-1B or other work visa stamped to be able to return to the […]
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 […]
Rebutting the presumption of Mandatory Detention under Matter of Q Li?
© Attorney Farhad Sethna, 2025 Reference: BIA decision – Matter of Q Li, 29 I&N Dec. 66 (BIA) 2025) Since the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) issued Matter of […]
Your rights, and what to do if you meet an ICE agent
This is a transcript of a recent talk which I gave: Hi, my name is Farhad Sethna. I’m an immigration attorney in Cuyahoga Falls Ohio and in these difficult times […]
Trump Promises Immigration Action on Day 1
Copyright, Sethna, Attorney, 2025 President Trump has promised that he is going to issue executive orders targeting immigrants in the country as soon as he is sworn in, that is, […]
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. […]
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“ […]