John Valdez’s Legal Blog

This blog is sent to remind foreign nationals to consult with their immigration attorney before traveling outside of the U.S.  They are many situations where traveling outside of the U.S. can harm a foreign national’s interests.  Consider these examples:

Most applicants for adjustment of status must wait to receive an advance parole document before leaving the U.S.  If this […]

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These can be good times for foreign student graduates looking for an H-1B visa.  The H-1B visa is a category that helps college graduates work in the United States if they can land a job offer that specifically requires their bachelor’s degree for the job. 
In the past, students had faced some pretty tough obstacles to […]

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You just married your sweetheart in a foreign country.  You are a U.S. citizen and you want to bring your foreign wife to the United States.  It should be a fast, easy process, right? 
Wrong.  Unfortunately, the process can be much more lengthy than people imagine.  First, even if your wife has a visitor visa, she […]

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Now is an excellent time for employers to sponsor highly skills foreign nationals for a non-immigrant visa.  The must useful immigration category for this purpose is the H-1B. 
The H-1B Category 
This category allows employers to hire a foreign national when the foreigner has at least the equivalent of a U.S. bachelors degree and the open position […]

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It is only February, but already the direction of immigration is shaping up.  Once again, there are no H-1B visas, as the cap has been filled.  The visa bulletin is extremely backlogged, which means that the wait for most immigrant visas is very, very long.  The government is readying to conduct a record number of […]

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