Toronto, February 18, 2021: Canada’s immigration authorities announced today that the Owner Operator Labor Market Impact Assessment program will be shut down effective April 1, 2021.
IRCC posted the news in its website, with the following instructions:
As of April 1, 2021, the Temporary Foreign Worker Program...
Washington, D.C., February 17, 2021: Venezuelans facing deportation back to their home country and its oppressive Maduro Regime anxiously await President Biden’s regulations on Deferred Enforced Departure (“DED”).
DED is executive action that would grant such Venezuelan immigrants a delay in deportation proceedings — likely to...
Washington DC, February 16, 2021: Reports from Washington indicate that the Biden Administration will end the Trump-era Citizenship Test for naturalization applications.
The Trump-era Citizenship Test was rolled out in December 2020 and immediately triggered controversy. The stated purpose of the test was to make it...
Washington, D.C., February 15, 2021: Two bills have been presented in the House and Senate that seek to grant Temporary Protected Status (TPS) to Venezuelan immigrants who have been forced to flee the political and economic oppression of Venezuela’s vicious Maduro Regime.
House Bill on TPS...
Washington, D.C., February 13, 2021: President Joe Biden’s administration will start allowing thousands of migrants to enter the U.S. while their asylum claims are being processed, according to a news release dated February 11.
Asylum seekers were previously forced to remain in Mexico under the Trump...
The Ox (牛) is the second of the 12-year periodic sequence (cycle) of animals which appear in the Chinese zodiac related to the Chinese calendar, and also appears in related calendar systems. The Chinese term translated here as ox is in Chinese niú (牛), a...
Washington, D.C., February 12, 2021: The U.S. Department of State published a new policy effective February 10, 2021, that again exempts F-1 and M-1 students on student visas traveling from the Schengen Area, the UK, and Ireland from travel restrictions to the United States.
14-Day Travel...
Washington, D.C., February 11, 2021: The initial registration period for FY2022 H-1B cap will open at noon (ET) on March 9 and run through noon (ET) on March 25. During this period, employers seeking an H-1B visa for a new skilled foreign worker will be...
Washington, D.C., February 10, 2021: A Federal Court in Washington, D.C. is considering a new case that may decide the future of the DACA program.
What is DACA?
DACA is a program created by President Obama in 2012, and is formally called “Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals.”...