Beginning January 29, 2024, the State Department (DOS) will open a long-awaited domestic visa renewal pilot program for eligible H-1B visa renewal applicants. The program allows certain applicants who received an H-1B visa from a U.S. embassy or consulate in Canada or India within specified dates to renew an H-1B visa from within the United States, sparing them the trip to a U.S. consulate abroad.
Read MoreDEPARTMENT OF STATE SEPTEMBER 2015 VISA BULLETIN SUMMARY
The Department of State released the September 2015 Visa Bulletin today. D&S provides a monthly Summary of the family and employment based priority dates. This month, there was forward movement in most family-based and employment-based visa categories with the exception of EB-2 India and China, both of which retrogressed to January 1, 2006 (a retrogression of almost 3 years for EB-2 India and almost 8 years for EB-2 China). EB-3 India and China both progressed over 6 months from June 1, 2004 to December 22, 2004. EB-5 China, which retrogressed for the first time in June 2015, experienced a moderate progression from September 1, 2013 to September 22, 2013.