New immigration developments *

USA - April 23 2013
This alert outlines three recent immigration-related developments of interest to companies and organizations employing foreign nationals…

Co-authors: Anne M. Wittmann.

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Export control reform advances with first formal notification to Congress of control list changes *

USA - March 18 2013
On Thursday, 7 March 2013, the Obama administration took a major step in its export control reform initiative: the submission of its first formal…

Co-authors: Jeanne Archibald, Ajay Kuntamukkala, Robert D. Kyle, Beth Peters, Anthony V. Capobianco.

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H-1B quota likely to be exhausted on (or shortly after) April 1, 2013 *

USA - March 18 2013
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced on Friday, March 15, that it expects to receive a large number of H-1B petitions subject…

Co-authors: Michael E. DeLarco, Beth Peters.

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BALCA affirms denial of H-2B for failure to file jointly as job contractor and employer-client *

USA - February 13 2013
On 21 December 2012, BALCA affirmed the decision of a Certifying Officer to deny a Labor Condition Application for H-2B workers filed by…

Co-authors: Elisabeth M. Liadis, Andrea Delisi, Beth Peters.

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Certain immigration documents to be made public *

USA - February 13 2013
The Department of Labor's Employment and Training Administration announced a new initiative to make redacted copies of H-1B, H-1B1, E-3, H-2A, H-2B…

Co-authors: Elisabeth M. Liadis, Andrea Delisi, Beth Peters.

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