This morning, the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services published a Notice in the Federal Register announcing the termination of Temporary Protected Status designation for South Sudan, effective 60 days from today. Continue Reading ›
On August 20, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit stayed a district court’s order postponing the termination of Temporary Protected Status for Nicaraguan, Honduran and Nepalese nationals. Continue Reading ›
On July 25, the U.S. Department of State announced that, effective September 2, most nonimmigrant visa applicants will no longer qualify for a visa interview waiver. Additionally, India’s popular dropbox “appointments,” which allowed applicants to mail in certain documents to qualify for a waiver, will no longer be available. There are limited exceptions to this new rule but for most employer-sponsored nonimmigrants, visa waivers and dropbox appointments will be a thing of the past. Continue Reading ›
For the third time in a month a federal court has affirmed nationwide injunctions blocking President Trump’s Executive Order 14160, which addresses birthright citizenship. Continue Reading ›
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has sent for review a proposed rule (Weighted Selection Process for Registrants and Petitioners Seeking To File Cap-Subject H-1B Petitions) regarding the H-1B lottery selection process. After the Office of Management and Budget completes its review, the next step would be for the DHS to publish the proposed rule in the Federal Register to provide notice and allow for comments from the public. Continue Reading ›
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security announced today that Temporary Protected Status for Honduras and Nicaragua will terminate on September 8. The announcements come only one week after the DHS announced that TPS status for Haiti would end on September 2. Continue Reading ›
UPDATE (7/2/25): A federal judge in New York on Tuesday found that the U.S. Department of Homeland Security did not have the authority to partially vacate Haiti’s TPS status. According to Judge Brian Cogan (a George W. Bush appointee), it was unlawful for the DHS to have shortened the TPS designation period from its original expiration of February 3, 2026, to August 3, 2025. This decision could mean a return to the February 3, 2026, expiration date, but that could be temporary. We expect the DHS to appeal, and seek review by the U.S. Supreme Court if necessary. Continue Reading ›
Today the U.S. Department of Homeland Security published a notice terminating Temporary Protected Status for Nepalese nationals effective August 5. This is expected to affect more than 12,000 individuals. Continue Reading ›
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has previously indicated its intent to terminate Temporary Protected Status for Afghanistan, and yesterday they took the first official step toward carrying it out. Continue Reading ›
It’s that time of year!
Registration for the H-1B cap lottery for Fiscal Year 2026 will begin the day after tomorrow: Friday, March 7. Here are seven things that employers need to know. Continue Reading ›
Resistance is building. Continue Reading ›
Whoa, Nelly! It's a stampede! Continue Reading ›
If you can answer these, you should be in good shape. Continue Reading ›
Help wanted. Continue Reading ›
Have you had your Work & Play? It's back!!! Continue Reading ›
Predictions from our attorneys in the practice areas that affect employers. Continue Reading ›
California Streamin’. Gov. Jerry Brown has either signed into law or allowed to take effect a torrent of new employment laws that will take effect January 1. Nestor Barrero of our LA-Century City Office has a summary of the significant ones, with recommendations for employers with operations there. Check it out!
Travel Ban 3 has been blocked. First, a federal court in Hawaii blocked President Trump’s September 24 travel ban Proclamation, which replaced the travel ban Executive Order that he issued on March 6 (“Travel Ban 2”). Continue Reading ›
The U.S. Customs and Immigration Services has resumed the “priority processing” option for all H-1B applications. Jeanette Phelan of our Jacksonville Office has the details here. Continue Reading ›
Must-see ConstangyTV! The September edition of ConstangyTV’s “Close-Up on Workplace Law” is on YouTube, and you will not want to miss it. Host Leigh Tyson talks with Jon Yarbrough about social media in the workplace, including social media horror stories and what employers can do about them, the restrictions that have been imposed on social media policies by the National Labor Relations Board, and how that might change now that we have a Republican majority on the Board. To save you a long, grueling trip to our YouTube site, here it is:
Trump’s 8 zillionth* travel ban: what employers need to know. President Trump issued a new travel ban “proclamation” on Sunday, and the excellent Will Krasnow of our Boston Office has read it and explains it all for us in this Immigration Dispatch.
*I might be exaggerating. Continue Reading ›
All immigration, all the time! Will Krasnow of our Boston Office has been working overtime in
following the latest developments, and explaining what they mean for employers. Last Friday, he had this Immigration Dispatch on the end of the Deferred Action on Childhood Arrivals under President Trump. (But is the President now close to a DACA deal with the Dems? Could be.) And yesterday, Will had another on the Supreme Court’s temporary stay of an injunction against the Administration’s refugee ban. (A “stay of an injunction of a ban” — triple negative, yay! — means that the Administration can continue, for the time being, to block certain refugees from coming into the United States.) Oral argument on the legal challenge to the President’s March 6 revised travel ban is scheduled for October 10, with a final decision to follow.
Will, thank you for keeping us all up to speed! Continue Reading ›
Employers can hope, but that doesn't necessarily mean change.
Tuesday night's Republican rout in the midterm elections was big news, but is it much ado about nothing from an employer's standpoint? Here are a few reasons not to become too giddy (if you were happy about the outcome) or too depressed (if you weren't):
1. Although the GOP will have control of the Senate, it does not have the 60 senators needed to override a presidential veto. So, even though House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) and Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), presumably the next Senate majority leader, are saying they'll work to repeal or partially roll back the Affordable Care Act, expect to see an actual vote that is largely symbolic. The President is expected to veto any but the most incremental legislation, and the Republicans won't be able to do anything about it unless they can find six moderate Democrats to join them. Are there any moderate Democrats left after Tuesday? Continue Reading ›
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