Every article on this site
56 published articles across 8 categories, plus the delay cost calculator.
I-140 & Employment-Based Petitions
- PM-602-0199: what the adjustment-of-status discretion memo means for a sponsoring employer
- October 2026 Visa Bulletin: EB-2 Rest of World is no longer current
- Security re-vetting in 2026: why approvable I-485s stopped moving
- Revoked I-140s after Bouarfa v. Mayorkas: what courts will no longer review
- When an I-140 stalls: what an employer can actually do
- Filing mandamus on a stuck I-140: timeline and cost
- I-140 premium processing: when it helps and when it does not
- Moving an approved I-140 to a new employer
- Retrogression: when the priority date moves backwards
PERM & Labor Certification
- DOL's proposed wage rule and the pending PWD: when NPWC delay acquires a price
- Layoffs, PERM recruitment and the September 2026 executive order
- FLAG processing times, October 2026: reading the PERM and PWD queues
- PERM delays at the Department of Labor: what options exist
- Prevailing wage determination delays at the NPWC
- Responding to a PERM audit without losing the case
H-1B & Nonimmigrant Work Visas
- The $100,000 H-1B payment in October 2026: vacated, extended, and vacated again
- The proposed $103,265 cap fee and what the first weighted selection taught employers
- Executive Order 14431: layoffs, LCA review and the proposed end of the 60-day grace period
- Change of status or consular notification? Why in-country filing became the default in 2026
- H-1B extensions past the sixth year when the I-140 is pending
- H-1B transfer delays and the start-date problem
- The 240-day rule and what happens when it runs out
EB-5 & Investor Immigration
- EB-5 fees from 30 November 2026: the new I-526E, I-829 and integrity fund schedule
- 1 January 2027: the first EB-5 investment adjustment and the filing-date question
- After 30 September 2026: EB-5 grandfathering, the 2027 sunset and the pending I-526E
- Is the RIA's 120-day goal a deadline? What Perez Correa Camarena v. Noem decided
- I-526E delays and the cost of committed capital
- I-829 delays and indefinite conditional residence
EAD & Work Authorization Gaps
- The EAD automatic-extension rule is final: what changed on 14 October 2026
- The end of duration of status: what it means for OPT, STEM OPT and cap-gap employees
- EADs, the I-9 and the 39-country hold: decisions an employer cannot postpone
- The end of the 540-day EAD extension: an employer's I-9 problem
- Building an I-9 reverification calendar that works
- H-4 and L-2 work authorization delays
The Cost of Delay
- The 2027 immigration budget: every government fee change an employer should forecast
- Costing an adjudication hold: the 2026 holds as a worked example
- EAJA fee recovery for corporate plaintiffs: the net-worth and headcount caps
- Calculating what an immigration delay costs your company
- Building the internal business case for filing
- Premium processing ROI: when to buy it every time
- When not to litigate a delay
Federal Litigation Playbook
- Dorcas v. USCIS: what the vacatur of the hold policies means for pending employer cases
- After Trump v. CASA: why the company usually needs to be a party
- Section 1252(a)(2)(B)(ii) and employment-based delay claims: the jurisdiction fight in 2026
- Venue for a corporate plaintiff: choosing the district under 28 U.S.C. ยง 1391(e)
- Company and employee as co-plaintiffs: when the employee needs separate counsel
- Writ of mandamus, explained for employers
- The TRAC factors applied to employment-based delay
- APA unreasonable delay and mandamus: the practical difference
- The evidence file a delay case needs
Consular & Global Mobility
- Online presence review and H-1B visa stamping: building a 2026 travel rule
- Advance parole for employees with a pending I-485 in 2026
- U.S.-citizen assignees abroad: CRBA or N-600K for children born overseas
- TN after the July 2026 USMCA review: contingency planning for employers
- 221(g) administrative processing and the employee who cannot return
- Writing a travel policy around visa risk