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Author: Rahim Dhanani

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Employment authorization for H-4 dependents

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) Director León Rodríguez announced today that, effective May 26, 2015, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is extending eligibility for employment authorization to certain...

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Immigration executive action summary

President Obama’s executive actions on immigration have several components to them.  A few important points to note about the executive actions are that they have not been enacted yet, will...

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Obama immigration speech Thursday night

President Obama will lay out his plan for immigration this Thursday (November 20, 2014) at 8:00 pm.  A link to the White House announcement is below. http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2014/11/19/tune-president-addresses-nation-immigration-reform

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Start planning your H-1B strategy now

I know it’s tough to predict employment needs almost a year in advance, but if your business model lends itself to making such predictions now is the time to start...

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EB-5 investor visa

In August I attended a two day conference in Chicago on the EB-5 investor visa.  The conference was presented by the American Immigration Lawyers Association.  The EB-5 is the “million...

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Do you make enough money to sponsor your spouse?

When a US citizen files an application for lawful permanent residence on behalf of a spouse, the US citizen petitioner is required to submit an affidavit of support on behalf...

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An alternative to the EB-5 visa

It seems lately that every time I run into anyone involved in real estate they want to ask me about the EB-5 investor visa.  The very basic requirements for the...

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Contributions of Immigrant Entrepreneurs

I recently came across a very insightful publication on immigration which provides statistics on companies that had at least one immigrant founder, took venture capital money and eventually became publicly...

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Notify USCIS if you move. It’s the law.

Do you have plans to move anytime soon?  If you’re not a US citizen and you move you are legally required to notify USCIS of your new address within 10...

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Options if you didn’t make the H-1B cap

Every year USCIS makes 65,000 H-1B visas available for companies that are placing workers in “specialty occupations” such as engineering, architecture, computer programming, etc.  The government also makes an additional...

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