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The President is scheduled to meet with Senators Schumer and Graham today, along with more than a dozen representatives from interested organizations. The meeting will be to discuss whether and when to bring a comprehensive immigration reform bill up for consideration in the Senate. The Wall Street Journal reported that the two senators, negotiating for their respective parties, have finally reached an agreement on a comprehensive bill. Senator Graham has said that he wants a definite commitment ...

I participated in today's teleconference hosted by the USCIS on the subject of their recent memo about H1b employer-employee relationships. At the outset, I want to acknowledge that they didn't have to host this conference. They did so because they have received so many complaints from the public. That they did host it shows that they are interested in learning more about the concerns held by the public.

I don't think that they were prepared for the buzz saw that they encountered. The ...

We have revised and expanded our four part analysis of the January 8, 2010 USCIS memo on the subject of H1b classification, consulting companies, and employer-employee relationships. You may view the new memo as a PDF document, by clicking here.

We have just published the February 15, 2010 ImmInfo Newsletter. You may read it by clicking here. If you would like to read past issue, please go to http://imminfo.com/News/newsletter_archives.html. If you would like to subscribe to the mailing list for notification of each new issue, please click here and put "subscribe" in the subject line.

On January 1, 2010 the DOL began requiring employers to obtain prevailing wage determinations from the DOL national office. Up until this change, prevailing wage requests were made through state employment services. These offices took between a few days and a few weeks to return a formal prevailing wage finding.

For more than a month now, the DOL has required employers to process all such requests through their national office. Thirty eight days into this new system, no one has reported ...