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.

Resistance is building.

Whoa, Nelly! It's a stampede!

If you can answer these, you should be in good shape.

Help wanted.

Have you had your Work & Play? It's back!!!

Predictions from our attorneys in the practice areas that affect employers.

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”).

Trump’s travel ban scores one with the SCOTUS. This week, in a victory for the Trump Administration, the U.S. Supreme Court dismissed as moot one of the two pending challenges to the March 6 travel ban issued by the Administration and vacated the lower court decision striking down the ban. (That March 6 travel ban has since been replaced by a September 24 travel ban.) Will ...

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.