ESTA-Like Registration Process Spreads to Europe for U.S. Citizens’ Travel in 2021

Several media outlets recently reported on a new pre-registration requirement for U.S. citizens traveling to any of the 26 Schengen-area countries, plus additional participating European countries and microstates (34 total at present), which will become effective on January 1, 2021.    The ETIAS registration will also apply to citizens of Australia, Brazil, Canada, Israel, Japan, New …

New Change/Extension of Status Forms (I-539/I-539A) Become Effective on March 22 – What is new (Biometrics for babies…)?

The use of new forms (Form I-539 and a new I-539A) seems like a very mundane subject to merit an alert, but indeed coming right before the start of the fiscal year 2020 H-1B cap filing season in April of 2019, it deserves attention and concern. On March 8, USCIS published a new I-539 form …

Employers Heads Up! – Spotting TPS Beneficiaries of the March 2019 Automatic Extension

On March 1, 2019, a notice was published by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS)[1] announcing that beneficiaries of Temporary Protected Status (TPS) from: Sudan, Nicaragua, Haiti, and El Salvador will continue to retain their TPS status while the preliminary injunction issued by the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California in Ramos …