We receive many questions that come into the Murthy Law Firm from visitors to our website and readers of our bulletin, as well as our clients and others who know us by reputation. The issuance of a December 5, 2006 USCIS memo affecting persons in...
This further update on the December 5, 2006 Guidance Memo issued by Michael Aytes, Associate Director, Domestic Operations of the USCIS, is for the benefit of MurthyDotCom and MurthyBulletin readers. In addition to the topics raised in NewsFlash! USCIS Memo on H and L Timing...
The Fiscal Year (FY) 2008 Diversity Lottery registration period closed on December 3, 2006. The U.S. Department of State (DOS) reports that over 6.4 million individuals applied for the lottery, which gives 50,000 individuals the opportunity to obtain a green card through the program each...
As was noted in a special posting on MurthyDotCom late last week, the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) issued an announcement that it would begin to accept premium processing for Extraordinary Ability (EA) petitions as of Monday, November 13, 2006. This is the most...
The USCIS reissued a May 12, 2005 memo on AC21 I-485 and H1B matters. The memo bears a December 27, 2005 date. This latest memo is identical to the original, presumably only with one clarification. The earlier memo was reported to our readers when it...
According to the U.S. Department of State (DOS), applications for the 2008 Diversity Visa (DV) Lottery will be accepted from noon (U.S. Eastern Time) October 4, 2006, to noon (U.S. Eastern Time) December 3, 2006. The DV Lottery Form will only be available through the...
The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced on Friday, September 22, 2006 that the Premium Processing Program (PPP) for I-140 petitions filed by employers will expand as of Monday, September 25, 2006 to certain additional employment-based (EB) categories. Three new EB categories will be...
Every year, there are unscrupulous individuals and organizations that try to use the U.S. Department of State (DOS) Diversity Visa Lottery Program to take advantage of foreign nationals. This year is no exception. A recent inquiry was made about certain lottery winner notifications that are...
The U.S. Department of State (DOS) announced in late July 2006, that the Kentucky Consular Center has registered and notified the Diversity Visa Lottery Winners for 2007 (DV-2007). The lottery program allocates immigrant visa numbers to certain countries with low rates of immigration to the...
The U.S. Department of State (DOS) issued a clarification regarding employees entering the U.S. under blanket L-1 (intracompany transferee) petitions. The L-1 is appropriate for a multinational company with at least one office in the U.S. and one abroad, for which the U.S. operation temporarily...
