We just had an E-2 investor extension of status approved through U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services. The applicant is a National of Bangladesh and was granted a 2 year extension to continue running…
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Scott Legal, P.C. just had an E-2 visa approval at the U.S. Consulate in Karachi, Pakistan. The E-2 visa was for an E-2 employee who will come to the U.S.…
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On June 28, 2019, the new EB-5 rule has been cleared by the Office of Management and Budget’s review. The rule was originally sent to the OMB in February 2019.…
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One way to apply for an E-2 visa if you are in the U.S. is to file an I-129 form to change status. While most applicants apply for E-2 visas…
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Scott Legal, P.C. just had an E-2 employee visa approved at the U.S. Consulate in Calgary. All initial E-2 visas and renewals must be processed in Toronto but E-2 employee…
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Scott Legal P.C. just had an approval for an E-2 visa at the U.S. Consulate in Toronto for a Mexican national. The applicant is a professional chef and will operate…
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Scott Legal, P.C. just had an approval for an E-2 visa at the U.S. Consulate in Toronto. The applicant was approved for 2 U.S. entities and has been operating the…
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When the U.S. citizen is living in the U.S. and the beneficiary (the person the U.S. Citizen will marry) is outside the U.S., the U.S. citizen can file an application…
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A “green card” or permanent resident card is a document that shows a that a person can stay in the U.S. and work here in almost any capacity. One is…
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USCIS have announced that they have plans to reassign some green card and naturalization cases from local field offices with long backlogs to those with fewer cases. Procedurally, USCIS has…
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We just had an B-1 visa approval in Melbourne, Australia. The applicant was granted a B-1 business visitor visa in order to come to the United States to investigate E-2 investment…
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We just had a fiancée visa approval with USCIS. When the U.S. citizen is living in the U.S. and the beneficiary (the person the U.S. Citizen will marry) is outside the…
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We just had an E-2 investor visa approval at the U.S. Consulate in Toronto. The applicant was granted the visa for 5 years and the business sells and installs industrial shelving…
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The State Department announced on June 13, 2019 that, due to high demand, a cutoff date of May 1, 2017 will be applied for Indian EB-5 applications. Every year, Congress…
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Scott Legal, P.C. just had an approval for a TN visa for a Canadian national. The applied by crossing the U.S. border and paying a $50 fee. You can find…
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We just had an E-2 investor visa approval at the U.S. Consulate in Toronto. The applicant was granted the visa for 4 years and the business is a tax consulting…
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USCIS has released data for the first half of fiscal year 2019 confirming that denial and RFE rates have continued to increase for nonimmigrant visa applications such as the H-1B,…
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USCIS announced that starting on June 10, 2019, it will accept premium processing requests for all remaining FY 2020 H-1B Cap cases. Premium processing costs $1410 and guarantees that USCIS will take…
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Starting on August 5, 2019, USCIS will reject any Form I-129, Petition for a Nonimmigrant Worker that do not include the Petitioner or Applicant’s name and primary U.S. office address…
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On May 28, 2019, the House of Representatives passed H.R. 6, the American Dream and Promise Act. This Act would provide a path to permanent residence and citizenship for current…
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The U.S. Embassy in New Zealand announced that starting on June 10, 2019, eligible New Zealand companies and nationals will be able to apply for the E-1 Treaty Trader and…
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Scott Legal, P.C. just had an approval for an E-2 visa for a coaching business. The approval was at the U.S. Consulate in Toronto and the visa was granted for…
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We just had an E-3 visa approval at the U.S. Embassy in London for an Executive of a media company. The applicant was applying for a replacement E-3 visa due to…
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The Department of Homeland Security have submitted a proposal to charge an unknown amount of fee for companies registering foreign nationals for the upcoming H-1B cap online registration system. Starting…
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Last week, the U.S. Department of State updated the DS160 and DS260 forms to include a question asking for the applicant’s last 5 years of social media information. The DS160…
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