Understand the latest trends, policies, and strategies for your US immigration journey.
Permission to work, tax residence and payroll obligations follow different rules. Understanding their interaction is essential to planning an international assignment—and its eventual conclusion. A cross-border assignment rarely produces a single legal decision. Permission to enter a country, authorization to work, liability for income tax and responsibility for
Teaching hospitals face a mix of proposed requirements, active policies and court-blocked rules affecting medical training, research and insurance coverage. For academic medical centers, immigration policy reaches across the institution. A change affecting a resident physician can complicate training schedules. A revised wage requirement can alter recruitment budgets. Rules
New charges proposed for practical training and employer sponsorship sharpen a debate over workforce needs, immigration oversight and protections for American workers. A federal proposal to charge universities $70,000 before recommending an international student for an initial period of work training has brought new attention to the route from
Oct 8, 2026 · @Luciane October 8, 2026 — The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has published a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) in the Federal Register that would, if finalized, establish new fees for Optional Practical Training (OPT) for F-1 students. The proposal would impose a fee of
Oct 7, 2026 · @Luciane On October 1, 2026, the annual supply of employment-based green cards reset for fiscal year 2027. Categories that closed in September have reopened, and the October 2026 Visa Bulletin moved cutoff dates in several categories. For backlogged applicants, especially those born in India and China,