Monthly Archives: August 2020

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Sarah Peterson is Recognized in Best Lawyers 2021

Sarah is the founder and Principal Attorney at SPS Immigration. Founded in 2005, SPS Immigration is guided by one basic principle – that every client deserves informed, efficient, yet individualized representation. SPS invests in building relationships that enable employers to hire a global workforce, representing a wide variety of clients including health care organizations and professionals, academia, the […]

By | 2020-08-24T10:56:05+00:00 August 20th, 2020|Categories: Awards & Recognitions|Comments Off on Sarah Peterson is Recognized in Best Lawyers 2021

Employees may temporarily use EAD approval notice to verify Form I-9

Due to extensive delays in issuing employment authorization documents (“EAD cards”), USCIS announced Wednesday, August 19, 2020, that employees may use Form I-797, Notice of Action, with a Notice date on or after December 1, 2019 through and including August 20, 2020, informing an applicant of approval of an Application for Employment Authorization (Form I-765) as […]

By | 2020-08-20T10:45:02+00:00 August 19th, 2020|Categories: I-9 Compliance|Comments Off on Employees may temporarily use EAD approval notice to verify Form I-9

USCIS Selects Additional FY 2021 H-1B Cap Cases

On August 14, 2020, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) began updating it’s H-1B portal with new Registration Selections, reflecting additional H-1B cap registrations had been selected in a second lottery cycle for FY 2021.  USCIS selected additional H-1B cap registrations because it did not receive enough filed H-1B petitions from the first lottery to […]

By | 2020-08-14T16:59:15+00:00 August 14th, 2020|Categories: H-1B|Comments Off on USCIS Selects Additional FY 2021 H-1B Cap Cases