Immigration Update with Lin Walker

We’ve received some good questions over the past week about the third round of H-1B lottery selection for FY 2022 and the filing process. As these selections happened on November 20th, it’s a good time to answer some of these fundamental questions. Don’t forget to message us on LinkedIn any questions you would like us to answer next time. Remember that all personal information is always kept confi...

The deadline to file H-1B cap petitions selected in the third round of the lottery for FY2022 is February 23, 2022. One of the most important steps in preparing the H-1B petition is determining the appropriate prevailing wage for the Labor Condition Application. Meyner and Landis LLP has created a tutorial video on how to determine the prevailing wage for H-1B petitions, as well as E-3 and H-1B1 p...

The lightning round is a rapid fire Q&A where we answer YOUR questions sent to us via LinkedIn private message. We’ve received some good questions over the past two weeks for our Lightning Round that we believe speak to how hot the current job market is in the United States. It’s certainly no secret that there is a lot of movement in the workforce these days. And judging by the questions we receiv...

We revisit the deference policy, a key component in the Meyner and Landis toolbox of strategies for successfully responding to L-1A Requests for Evidence (RFEs). We use two recent client success stories to illustrate how the deference policy can be utilized to increase the chances of approval.

This week’s Lightning Round is travel themed in honor of the upcoming holidays. Lin and Kristen tackle questions such as… Will the United States accept a combination of vaccines for travelers entering the U.S.? What are the exceptions for travelers being fully vaccinated? What are the difficulties of traveling while your status is pending, what to look out for in general if you are a foreign natio...

If you are a foreign national who will be traveling soon this episode can help you from committing an easy to make mistake that can have serious long-term consequences. This week we have a short warning and a powerful solution to a problem that can sneak up on you from behind.

Time for another LIGHTNING ROUND, featuring Meyner associate Kristen Sisko and Meyner partner Lin Walker The lightning round is a rapid fire Q&A where we answer YOUR questions sent to us via LinkedIn private message. This week Lin and Kristen tackle questions about which vaccines will be acceptable for entry into the United States, the state of the U.S./Canada border, and several questions related...

What is an O1-B visa? Who can get one? And what are the requirements? In this podcast we are going to explain the different classifications of artists eligible for an O-1B visa and the kind of evidence needed. If you are foreign national artist looking to work in the United States you are definitely going to want to listen to this weeks episode.

This week we have another Lightning Round Featuring Meyner Immigration Associate Kristen Sisko and Meyner immigration partner Lin Walker. The lightning round is a rapid fire Q&A we do here on the podcast every two weeks about hot topics affecting immigration professionals. Today Kristen and Lin dig into the information you NEED to know about the recent rescinding of the COVID-19 travel bans.

In this episode we talk about the extent of the processing delays at USCIS, (you’ll be astonished if you haven’t already been experiencing them yourself) some reasons WHY this is happening and finally, some things you can do to help facilitate your petitions.

This week we have a break from our usual format, Meyner and Landis immigration associate Kristen Cisco has complied a rapid fire Q & A of the 5 most important things you need to know when considering filing an NIE. She’s joined by immigration partner Lin Walker.

When the first round of COVID-19 related travel restrictions were issued in February 2020, many foreign nationals, employers and immigration professionals were cautiously optimistic that these restrictions would be short-lived. More than eighteen exhaustive months later, this could not be further from the truth. U.S. Embassies and Consulates throughout the world continue to operate with skeletal s...

USCIS recently issued two policy changes regarding Form I-693, Report for Medical Examination or Vaccine Record which directly impacts foreign nationals who have or will be applying for lawful permanent resident status.

The goal of the podcast this week is to provide foreign nationals and their employers with important issues to consider when moving. It can be an unwelcome surprise to foreign nationals and their employers when they realize the impact that moving, even within the same State, can have on their immigration status.

This week, we offer a repost of a useful podcast from several months ago... If you were lucky enough to have your H-1B Cap Registration selected, now that the second round is happeneing, what are the next steps? Well, there is still some work to do! In this week's podcast we will examine and summarize what the H-1B Registration Selection notice states and the next steps for those whose registratio...

This week, a bit of breaking news and unfortunately, it’s not good news . The Biden Administration recently supported and defended the legality of a Trump-era rule of wage-based H-1B cap selections. This is very frustrating, disappointing and disheartening for immigration professionals, employers and foreign nationals. We had hoped the President would help to overturn rules like this wage-based se...

This week the writer of these podcasts, Immigration partner Lin Walker, stops by to talk about a best practice in using USCIS’ COVID-19 flexibility policy and a simple, but effective method the Meyner & Landis has developed for responding to RFEs that you have to hear!

On June 16, 2021, a U.S. Department of Labor Administrative Law Judge ordered a U.S. Company to pay a former employee more than $400,000 in back wages and benefits, for multiple violations of the E-3 visa program as established by the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA). In this podcast we tell you how that happened, explain briefly what the E-3 visa program is and explain what you as an employe...

The dreaded RFE…if you have received that package of blue or yellow paper, sometimes over 12 pages long, you understand the significant anxiety, frustration and sometimes, fear that it causes. This week we have the author of these podcasts, immigration Partner Lin Walker sitting in to share some very positive news regarding several challenging L-1A Requests for Evidence (RFEs) that Meyner & Landis...

In this episode we explain about two complimentary documents that you must be aware of if you are a foreign national who has been admitted to the United States. While both of these documents are critically important and often contain similar information, they can be confusing and sometimes a very simple mistake can cause you to unknowingly overstay your period of authorization and jeopardize your...

While it’s true that we can very much learn from our mistakes, and should, in this podcast we are going to give you the benefit of what we learned from two recent successes We are going to talk about two extensive L-1A RFEs, that we were able to get approved. Through the process of responding to these RFEs, we learned some key points which we believe resulted in these specific cases being approved...

Something wonderful happened on June 9th, which was the first day of the 2021 AILA Annual Conference, and it created a sense of immense optimism amongst immigration practitioners, who, along with their clients, have suffered these past four years. The news that we received this week from USCIS and AC21 was a much needed and welcome change from the past four years, and gives us tremendous hope that...

This week we explore a rather puzzling development in the battle against COVID-19. There are some policies being put into place, supposedly in an effort to keep people safe, that simply make no sense.

We are really happy to be bringing some incredibly positive news to share with our listeners, On May 10, 2021, USCIS announced that it would continue granting benefits under the International Entrepreneur (IE) parole program, With this podcast, we want to provide some guidance on the IE Parole Program, who is eligible to benefit from the program and how to file an application with USCIS.

This week, Lin Walker, the writer of these podcasts, sits in to tell us about an approach to creatively titling the job description of some high level executives in order to better define their contribution to their professions.