US Immigration News

Usually the H1B visa quota is heavily oversubscribed and there is a lottery for the available 85,000 visas.  This means the likelihood of obtaining a cap subject H1B visa is low. 

The news reports on this may be somewhat misleading.  On what basis will it be any faster to gain a green card?  If you gain entry to the US on the basis of some form of diplomatic status this does not necessarily make it any faster.

The Coronavirus Pandemic is causing huge problems for billions of people around the World.  Perhaps not surprisingly politicians are more concerned about helping citizens through the crisis than migrants who do not have the vote.  Therefore, migrants around the World are less likely to receive financial assistance from Governments. 

The US visa restrictions is causing significant delay for temporary and permanent migrants to the US.  Coronavirus has so far claimed the lives of about 19,000 people Worldwide and many would say, on top of this, will cause a Worldwide recession.  Without Government support ma

With the economy suffering around the World due to the Coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic some H1B visa workers are increasingly worried that they will lose their jobs.  The H1B visa is to work for a particular employer.  Therefore if you lose your job it is likely that you will either need to find a new employer or eventually

The UK also advised their citizens not to travel to the US it seems in retaliation.  Matt Hancock wrote in The Sunday Telegraph, that coronavirus was "the biggest public health emergency in a generation."   Public health experts have suggested that once a disease has been circulating in a community travel bans make little dif