Prevailing Wage Determination Gets a Starring Role in This Video Immediately below you can view our prevailing wage determination explainer video, the second video in our four-part series on what the H-2B Visa Program looks like in 2017. Part 1, H-2B Certification Overview, can be found in our ultimate H-2b Certification Primer. While the walkthrough here focuses on the H-2B Visa, the lessons are …
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DACA Renewal Window May Widen On October 12, the news broke that President Trump may provide another extension for DACA renewal beyond the previously designated March 5 deadline to end protections for young undocumented immigrants. Previously, President Trump announced that if Congress failed to act by this deadline, the DACA program would cease to exist. In a previous post, we discussed …
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How to Prepare for the End of your DACA Permit At our law firm we frequently hear clients say, "Without DACA, should I sell my [insert asset here]." An expired DACA permit or the repeal of the DACA program and the threat of an uncertain future brings out these sorts of anxieties. However, Bull City Lawyer wants every DACA recipient (current and expired) to understand that there are ways to …
First Off - the H2B Certification Update for 2020 is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQAW7DH4tgA&t= Second off, in 2017/18 Made an H2B Certification Process Series Our four part certification primer from 2017/18 is below. Most of this information is relevant, but new systems like FLAG, and a new lottery system also mean that some of this info is outdated. Our H-2B 2020 guide, to the …
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DACA 2017 Renewal and the Current DACA Renewal Process Following President Trump's DACA executive order, there has been a mad dash by DACA recipients for renewal. At Bull City Lawyer, we've assisted clients whose expiration falls within the enumerated September 5, 2017 - March 5, 2018 expiration window to go through the daca renewal process. The deadline for the DACA 2017 renewal is/was October 5, …
USCIS sent a notice that says OPT denied Your day was going pretty well. You were planning your life post-graduation, searching for jobs, maybe you were already liaisoning with someone a company that has promised you a job once your post-graduate OPT is approved. But then you went to check your mail and found that USCIS sent you a notice... Inexplicably, the notice said contained the words "OPT …
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