Feb 17, 2026 | Immigration News, Latest News
Over the past year, many extraordinary ability applicants and startup founders, among them, have felt that U.S. immigration adjudications have become more unpredictable. That perception is not unfounded. Using the only comparable public data available (FY 2025 Q1–Q3...
Oct 22, 2025 | Immigration News, Latest News
Last weekend, our Managing Attorney for Corporate Practice, Olga Prygoda, joined other leading immigration attorneys at the AILA Pacific Northwest Conference in Seattle. The session, “H-1B Fundamentals and Latest Developments 2025,” featured Olga alongside Felicia...
Oct 17, 2025 | Immigration News
In 2025, USCIS started issuing more requests for evidence and notices of intent to deny, including for employment-based filings such as O-1, L-1, EB-1, and EB-2 national interest waiver petitions. Lawyers report RFEs that are both more frequent and sometimes broader...
Oct 1, 2025 | Immigration News, Latest News
A Gold Card program was created by Executive Order on Sept 19, 2025. It directs Commerce (with the U.S. Department of State and DHS) to set up a process that treats a qualifying “gift” to Commerce as evidence for an immigrant visa via an expedited process, “to the...
Sep 25, 2025 | Blog, Immigration News
On September 19, 2025, President Trump signed an executive order launching the “Gold Card” – a new visa pathway framed as a fast-track option for permanent residence in the United States. While highly publicized, the program is already raising questions about...
Sep 25, 2025 | Blog, Immigration News
Last Friday, the US Presidential Administration announced two new proposals in official Proclamations: A $100,000 fee for each new H-1B visa petition, which would make H-1B sponsorship very expensive and impossible for most American companies. A “Gold Card” green card...
