Recent laws enable eligible parolees and their qualifying family members from Afghanistan and Ukraine to be employment authorized incident to their “parole” status effective November 21, 2022.
The UK Home Office has published figures showing a large increase in work visas in the past year: 248,919 in the year ending September 2022 (up 82% from the pre-pandemic year ending December 2019).
Equal Pay Transparency laws have been passed in several states and localities, potentially impacting the PERM/H-1B labor condition application process for employers conducting labor market testing efforts within those states before hiring foreign workers.
Tomasz Rogala and Marcin Sanetra, Littler | PCS attorneys and Lavanga Wijekoon discuss the legal assistance Littler’s Poland attorneys have given Ukrainians fleeing the recent conflict there.
Jeronimo Simonovis and Lavanga Wijekoon discuss an asylum case before U.S. immigration authorities that Jeronimo won involving a woman and her 8-year-old son.
On October 12, 2022, the USCIS announced that employers should continue to use the current Form I-9 after its expiration date of October 31, 2022, until further notice.
On October 11, 2022, DHS and ICE announced a nine-month extension until July 31, 2023, of the policy allowing remote, virtual verification of the documentation required for a Form I-9 when a workforce is working remotely.
Since March 2020, the USCIS has allowed virtual, remote I-9 verification where all employees are working remotely due to COVID, or when a new employee, post April 1, 2021, is working remotely due to COVID.
The U.S. Department of State (DOS) released its Visa Bulletin for October 2022. The Visa Bulletin is a monthly DOS publication regarding immigrant visa availability.
