Organisations warn US of employers substituting L-1 visa for H-1B

This week the US began accepting applications for the popular H-1B visa program. While the H-1B visa has been a popular visa among IT workers for a long time, critics are saying that the L-1 visa is now being used improperly in place of the H-1B visa. The L-1 visa is used for intra-company transfers [...] Read more »

Be An Entrepreneur In Residence To Help Create A Startup Visa

As many of you know, I’ve been involved in advocating for the Startup Visa since the idea was first conceived in the fall of 2009. While it’s frustrating to me that some leaders in Congress are much more interested in trying to jam through bills, such as SOPA and PIPA, that fundamentally censor and undermine the structure of [...] Read more »

Changes in Immigration Process to Help Foreign Entrepreneurs

Those seeking immigrant visas to the United States may be aided by changes to the EB-5 visa program and improvements to the USCIS’s FAQ webpage on the EB-2 visa. December 15, 2011 /24-7PressRelease/ — Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano and U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) Director Alejandro Mayorkas recently announced a new step [...] Read more »