EIG COVID-19 Update | August 14, 2020
With our mission to uncomplicate the complicated, we’ve always thought of our work in immigration as people-first. Our goal is for these emails to make sense of the changes
Read More »Immigration Nerds Talk About the Expansion of Immigrant Data Collection
From collecting social media passwords of visa holders to taking DNA samples of travelers at the border, the practice of collecting private information from foreign travelers
Read More »National Interest Exceptions To Recent Presidential Proclamations
On August 12, 2020, the Department of State issued updated guidance regarding national interest exceptions noted in President Trump’s proclamations suspending entry of
Read More »EIG COVID-19 Update | August 12, 2020
With our mission to uncomplicate the complicated, we’ve always thought of our work in immigration as people-first. Our goal is for these emails to make sense of the changes
Read More »USCIS Expected to Reopen FY21 H-1B Lottery
On Monday, August 10, multiple sources close to USCIS began reporting that the agency would reopen the FY 2021 H-1B lottery due to lower than expected filing numbers of the
Read More »EIG COVID-19 Update | August 10, 2020
With our mission to uncomplicate the complicated, we’ve always thought of our work in immigration as people-first. Our goal is for these emails to make sense of the changes
Read More »EIG COVID-19 Update | August 7, 2020
With our mission to uncomplicate the complicated, we’ve always thought of our work in immigration as people-first. Our goal is for these emails to make sense of the changes
Read More »EIG COVID-19 Update | August 5, 2020
With our mission to uncomplicate the complicated, we’ve always thought of our work in immigration as people-first. Our goal is for these emails to make sense of the changes
Read More »Summary and Analysis on President Trump’s Executive Order to Prioritize American Workers for Federal Contracts
On Monday, August 3, President Donald Trump released an “Executive Order on Aligning Federal Contracting and Hiring Practices With the Interests of American Workers to
Read More »EIG COVID-19 Update | August 3, 2020
With our mission to uncomplicate the complicated, we’ve always thought of our work in immigration as people-first. Our goal is for these emails to make sense of the changes
Read More »US Labor and Immigration Agencies Team Up on H-1B Enforcement
Summary: On Friday, USCIS announced via a tweet that the agency had “entered into a Memorandum of Agreement with the US Department of Labor to provide access and
Read More »Immigration Nerds talk to Author Jessica Goudeau about her book, “After the Last Border”
In this week’s Immigration Nerds podcast, journalist and author Jessica Goudeau meets us at the mic to talk about her new book, After the Last Border: Two Families and
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