January 2015 Visa Bulletin

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12/26/2014: Employment-Based Immigration Reform Already in the Rule-Making Process Which are Included in the Obama Immigration Actions

• The USCIS has released its implementation plan for the Obama's Immigration Actions in various areas. For the employment-based immigration reforms, most of them will require a rule-making process which is a time-consuming process as it has to go through several stages of processes under the Executive Order that has been governing the OMB's rule-making process. The steps include: (1) Proposed rule which is not binding must be submitted by the involved agency to the OMB. (2) OMB has from 30 days to 90 days to complete the reviews depending on the importance and impact of the rules on the economy and other critical national policies. (3) OMB has a discretion to extend the 90-day mandate even for an indefinite period of time. (4) Once OMB completes the review and agreed, the non-binding proposed rule must be published in the federal register seeking input from the public in the form of comments. Since the Executive Order does not fix any mandated time when this federal register publication must be ordered, it can be swiftly or almost indefinitely again, causing a tremendous delays before the public can find out the tests of the proposed rule and send in comments. (5) Comment period is given from 30 days to 60 days in most cases. This comment period can again delay the process in rule-making process. (6) OMB also has an authority to extend the comment period by publishing such notice, which will again delay the process. (7) Once comment period is finally over, the stakeholder agency must review all the comments and other policy issues in order to draft a legally binding rule in the form of Interim Final Rule or Final Rule. The governing Executive Order does not have any set time line within when they should complete the review. It remains an open question, depending a very short period of time or a bleeding extended period of time. (8) Once the stake holder agency completes the review of comments and resolves its policy issues and complete draft of either Interim Final Rule or Final Rule, it is required to submit such draft of Interim Final Rule or Final Rule to the OMB again for its review and decision. (9) The OMB has again from 30 days to 90 days for review or extend the review period indefinitely. Or the OMB can disagree with the stakeholder policies from legal and political standpoints and deny approvals. Since the Interim Final Rule or Final Rule becomes legally binding upon the publication in the federal register, the OMB approval at this final step is very important. (10) Once the OMB approves the draft of Interim Final Rule or Final, it will have to be published in the federal register. Guess what! There is no time line or mandate for publication in the federal register!! Dizzy enough?
• There are two EB reform proposed rules that started a way earlier than the Obama Immigration Actions and eventually merged into the Obama Immigration Actions immigration plans. They went through one good news and one bad news. Good news is that they have already completed and passed "proposed" rule stage after a timing consuming process which is described above. One bad news is that the process of its legally binding Interim Final or Final Rule making process has been stalled, even if the period for comment was over on 07/11/2014, (1) pending the release of the Obama's Immigration Actions; (2) pending the implementation plan release of the USCIS; (3) pending determination of the final rule-making process which is described above. We have already explained above that there is no legally mandated time line for this process and it will all depend on the political and policy dynamics.
• What are these two pending "final rule" making processes on the way in the employment-based immigration reforms?
  • Certain H-4 spouse employment authorization reform
  • Expansion of current regulation for most of current employment-based non immigrant visa extension petitions giving 240-day authorized stay and employment authorization "pending" and "timely" filed petitions before expiration of I-94, except E-3 visa for Australians, H-1B1 for Chile and Singapore, and CW-1 visa programs. The final rule extend such benefits to E-3, H-1B1, and CW-1 non immigrant visa holders.
  • EB-1B Outstanding Researcher or Teacher Immigration Program: Current rule requires strict evidence to prove "international recognized outstanding in his/her specific academic field" which have produced such EB-1B petitions during the past years 2,896 I-140 petitions. The final rule will loosen up the evidentiary requirement by accepting either "important patents" or "prestigious, peer-reviewed funding or grants."
• The impacts of such foregoing reforms will be very limited in numbers and to certain ethnic groups of immigrants. But these reforms will positively reform that part of employment-based immigration system under the current law. For the full text of these rules, please click here.

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pedda matter ledhu adhe inthakamundhu obama speech ivvakamundhe proposed rule lo unnavi(like h4-ead) ippudu ee Exec order th patu mix chesaru ani......andhuke avi final stage lo unna ika exact date menntion cheyyalledhu eppudu nunchi implement ani....

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pedda matter ledhu adhe inthakamundhu obama speech ivvakamundhe proposed rule lo unnavi(like h4-ead) ippudu ee Exec order th patu mix chesaru ani......andhuke avi final stage lo unna ika exact date menntion cheyyalledhu eppudu nunchi implement ani....

H4- EAD di jan ki antunnaruu, emanna chances vunnyaaaa or not?

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pedda matter ledhu adhe inthakamundhu obama speech ivvakamundhe proposed rule lo unnavi(like h4-ead) ippudu ee Exec order th patu mix chesaru ani......andhuke avi final stage lo unna ika exact date menntion cheyyalledhu eppudu nunchi implement ani....

 

H4- EAD di jan ki antunnaruu, emanna chances vunnyaaaa or not?

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12/00/2014 ani pettadu but ee article prakaram bcoz of obama exec action daani implementation details and application timeline ivvani delay avuthunayi ani rasadu even though its inn last stage

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12/29/2014: DHS/DOS Request for Information on Modernizing & Streamlining U.S.Immigrant & Nonimmigrant visa System

• As separate from the specific plans of immigration stakeholder agencies to implement the President's Immigration Actions of November 20, 2014, the DHS and DOS are seeking a wide rage of information from the public to streamline and improve the Nation’s legal immigration system during the next 30 days. This announcement will be official published in the federal register tomorrow, 12/30/2014, but our readers can read the advance copy here.
• Although it states that it is not directly related to the Obama actions, the subjects they seek public's inputs are very similar to immigration actions for legal immigration systems in the Obama;s November 20, 2014 Immigration Actions announcement as people can see it below:
  • I. Streamlining the Legal Immigration System
    • 1. What are the most important policy and operational changes that would streamline and improve the processing of immigrant visas at U.S. Embassies and Consulates, for both family-sponsored and employment-based immigrant visas?
    • 2. What are the most important policy and operational changes that would streamline and improve the processing of nonimmigrant visas at U.S. Embassies and Consulates, including visitor, student, temporary worker and other nonimmigrant visas?
    • 3. What are the most important policy and operational changes that would streamline and improve U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) processing of the following types of immigrant and nonimmigrant visa petitions?
      • a. Family-sponsored immigrant visa petitions
      • b. Employment-based immigrant visa petitions
      • c. Nonimmigrant petitions
      • d. Humanitarian petitions and applications (such as U nonimmigrant status petitions, T nonimmigrant status applications, and VAWA self-petitions)
      • e. H-1B temporary worker visa petitions, specifically, ways to reduce burdens on employers and workers engaging in the H-1B petition process, consistent with protections for U.S. and temporary foreign workers. (Note that employment authorization for certain H-4 dependent spouses of H-1 B nonimmigrants was a part of the President’s November 20 announcement described above, and recommendations regarding that topic should not be submitted here.)
    • 4. What are the most important policy and operational changes that would streamline and improve the process of changing from one nonimmigrant status to another nonimmigrant status?
    • 5. What are the most important policy and operational changes that would streamline and improve the process of applying for adjustment of status to that of a lawful permanent resident while in the United States?
    • 6. What are the most important policy and operational changes that would streamline and improve the inspection of arriving immigrants and nonimmigrants at U.S. ports of entry?
    • 7. What are the most important policy and operational changes that would attract the world’s most talented researchers to U.S. universities, national laboratories, and other research institutions? (Do not submit responses directly related to the actions announced on November 20, including the strengthening and extending of the Optional Practical Training program for foreign students. Separate processes exist to engage regarding those actions where necessary; see details above.)
    • 8. What are the most important policy and operational changes that would attract the world’s most talented entrepreneurs who want to start and grow their business in the United States? (Do not submit responses directly related to the actions announced on November 20, including the “national interest waiver” and “significant public benefit” parole pathways for entrepreneurs. Separate processes exist to engage regarding those actions where necessary; see details above.)
    • 9. What are the policy or operational changes that could assist in creating additional immigration opportunities for high-demand professions, such as physicians?
      10. Focusing on the EB-5 immigrant investor visa, what policy or operational changes would
      (a) reduce existing burdens and uncertainties on the part of petitioners, Regional Centers, and other participants in the program; (b) ensure that this program is achieving the greatest impact in terms of U.S. job creation, economic growth, and investment in national priority projects that the capital markets would not otherwise competitively finance; and (c) enhance protections against fraud, abuse, and criminal misuse of the program by petitioners or Regional Centers?
    • 11. How can labor market related requirements for temporary workers be best tailored to meaningfully protect both U.S. and temporary foreign workers while achieving operational efficiency for both employers and relevant Federal agencies?
    • 12. How should relevant occupational categories, descriptors, and/or data, such as the Department of Labor’s O*NET system (http://www.onetonline.org) be refined and updated to better align the prevailing wage determination process for visas with the evolving job market?
    • 13. Focusing on the diversity visa program, what are the most important policy and operational changes that would streamline and improve the diversity visa process, including enhancing protections against fraud?
    • 14. What other policy and operational changes would most effectively combat waste, fraud, and abuse in the legal immigration system
  • II. Ensuring Use of All Immigrant Visa Numbers
    • 15. What are the most important policy and operational changes, if any, available within the existing statutory framework to ensure that administrative policies, practices, and systems fully and fairly allocate all of the immigrant visa numbers that Congress provides for and intends to be issued each year going forward?
      16. What are the most important policy and operational changes, if any, available within the existing statutory framework to ensure that administrative policies, practices, and systems fully and fairly allocate all of the immigrant visa numbers that Congress provided for and intended to be issued, but were not issued in past years?
  • III. Modernizing IT Infrastructure
    • 17. From the perspective of petitioners and applicants, which elements of the current legal immigration system (both immigrant and nonimmigrant systems) are most in need of modernized information technology (IT) solutions, and what changes would result in the most significant improvements to the user experience?
    • 18. Which existing government-collected data and metrics would be most valuable to make available to the public, consistent with privacy protections and national security, in order to improve oversight and understanding of the legal immigration system?
• Hmmm........................ Interesting! Consdering the fact that they are seeking inputs within a short period of time of only 30 days and subjects look very similar to Obama actions list in legal immigrant system reform, they are still seeking final directions for reform of legal system part of the immigration reform, as separate from scheduled launch of reform of undocumented immigrant system reform beginning from May 2015. What do you think, readers? Legal immigrants, particularly employment-based immigrants, employers and stakeholders should en masse participate in the process!! Remember the old saying: Only crying babies are fed with milk!!
• Do you remember that aside form the foregoing efforts of DHS and DOS (Department of State), the Department of Labor is also working on the following:
  • To respond to change, the Department will be initiating a review of the PERM program and relevant regulations. As part of this review, the Department will seek input on the current regulation, including how it could be modernized to be more responsive to changes in the national workforce. Specifically, the Department will seek input on the following:
  • Options for identifying labor force occupational shortages and surpluses and methods for aligning domestic worker recruitment requirements with demonstrated shortages and surpluses;
  • Methods and practices designed to modernize U.S. worker recruitment requirements;
  • Processes to clarify employer obligations to insure PERM positions are fully open to U.S. workers;
  • Ranges of case processing timeframes and possibilities for premium processing; and
  • Application submission and review process and feasibility for efficiently addressing nonmaterial errors.
  • ETA may also examine other aspects of the existing PERM regulations to further align the program design with the objectives of the U.S. immigration system and needs of workers and employers, and to enhance the integrity of the labor certification process.
• Unlike the information on reform for the undocumented immigrants, legal immigrants are currently suffering from lack of information on the government reform efforts. Hope we see some improvement in this matter in the future.