Gehis Immigration & International Legal Services

Changes Expected in Immigration under the Biden Administration The Build Back Better bill has been proposed by the Biden Administration with an intent to provide legal status to individuals who have been living in the United States Before December 11. 2011.   The bill, if passed, will allow individuals who have been living in the United States before December 2011 to obtain employment authorization for a period of five years.   The individual will also be able to renew his employment authorization for another five years.   The bill will also help to clear the backlogs in priority dates under the family based immigration category, the employment based immigration category. It will also benefit prior applicants of the Visa Lottery Program especially because it will retain   visas available from 2017 to 2021. Approximately 6.5 million undocumented immigrants who have been living in the United States prior to 2011 will benefit for employment authorization   under the program.   Under the

  Are you aprofessional with a specialty occupation such as a doctor, lawyer, architect orcomputer programmer who wants to work in the U.S.? If you have at least a baccalaureate/bachelor’s degree and your profession requires highly specialized skills, this visa may be the right one for you!   An H-1B visa is available to individual professionals who are looking to work in the U.S. for a particular employer. H-1B visa applicants must first register to apply for their visa. The registrations are selected through two lotteries occurring annually. For the fiscal year 2022, 87,500 visas were selected in the first lottery, while an additional 27,717 registrations were selected by November 3, 2021. In total, up to 115,217 H-1B visas will be issued. The most important requirement for obtaining an H-1B visa is to ensure that the job qualifies as a “specialty occupation.” Specialty occupations are those that require the theoretical and practical application of a body of highly specialize