November 2018

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced a notice of proposed rulemaking that would require petitioners seeking to file H-1B cap-subject petitions to first electronically register with U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) during a designated registration period. Under the proposed rule, USCIS would also...

Getson & Schatz P.C successfully represented a client submitting an I-485 Application to Adjust Status for himself and three derivative beneficiaries. Our attorneys also helped the client in transferring the I-485 Petition from an approved 1-140 Immigrant Petition for Alien Worker to an approved I-130...

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced that it has consolidated the data pages on its website to include all data on one page. The new Immigration and Citizenship Data page makes information more easily accessible to users. In addition to the redesigned data page, USCIS...

Getson & Schatz P.C successfully represented a Chemical and Pharmaceutical Consulting Company filing a PERM Labor Certification and subsequent I-140 Immigrant Petition for Alien Worker on behalf of a beneficiary who they intended to employ in the position of Research Chemist. Approval of the PERM...

The American Immigration Council reported that insurers have always depended on large numbers of participants to pay into a pool so that those with the highest rates of usage are covered by those with lower rates. In other words, everyone in an insurance pool is...

The American Immigration Council reported that every year, the Census Bureau releases new data from its American Community Survey (ACS), which contains a wealth of information about the characteristics of the U.S. population. Without fail, this data always underscores the significant extent to which immigrants...