As the founder of an immigration tech startup and an immigration digital marketing agency focused on the immigration industry, finding time for journalistic reporting on immigration tech is tough.Indeed, this article was slated to be published in March 2021 covering
Can you submit an LCA into the US Department of Labor’s FLAG system before you post it? Or do you have to post the LCA notice first and only then submit the LCA itself into FLAG?Many, if not most immigration
The rise in acceptance and popularity of electronic LCA posting has also raised a number of questions, most importantly: what’s the best way to notify affected workers, per 20 CFR § 655.734, when posting an LCA notice electronically? While
Is giving LCA notice at third party worksites a headache?For most H-1B employers and immigration lawyers the answer seems to be yes. As a best case scenario it’s merely additional back-and-forth between the H-1B petitioning employer, their immigration law firm
I wrote a “2020 immigration tech update” back in August, where I largely covered the acquisition of TrackerCorp by Mitratech and a few other immigration technology announcements, thinking I would be done for the year. It was already one
A year and a half ago, I wrote an article summarizing the growth of immigration tech companies after noticing that while so much was happening in the industry, no one was really looking at it in a comprehensive, celebratory way.Well,
As I was finishing up this article, President Trump fired off a tweet late night on 4/20/2020 stating that he was planning to sign an executive order temporarily halting all immigration into the US. No one knows what this means
On Friday, March 20, 2020, The US Department of Labor’s (DOL) Office of Foreign Labor Certification (OFLC) finally put out guidance on how immigration practitioners and employers hiring foreign nationals can and should deal with certain DOL-related processes and procedures
[3/19 UPDATE]. The American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA) released their own Practice Alert entitled, “Fulfilling U.S. Department of Labor Notice Requirements During COVID-19 Outbreak” in which they state that the most conservative method of providing LCA notice right now is
Almost one year after the US Department of Labor (DOL) published a memo providing guidance on electronic Labor Condition Application (LCA) posting, there are still a lot of H-1B petitioners posting hard copy LCA notices.And more often than not, unfortunately,