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Oct 15, 2026 • Immigration News • 2 min read

DHS is preparing a rule that would change premium processing timeframes

The White House is reviewing a USCIS proposal to amend premium processing timeframes, which are currently 15, 30 or 45 business days depending on the benefit.

H-1B Processing Times

Oct 15, 2026 • Immigration News • 3 min read

Federal judge orders the State Department to reopen the 2027 Diversity Visa lottery

A San Diego judge granted a preliminary injunction requiring the State Department to announce and open the fiscal year 2027 Diversity Visa registration, with a 30-day entry window.

Green Card

Oct 14, 2026 • Immigration News • 2 min read

House bill would raise the H-1B dependent-employer salary threshold to about $140,000

A House companion to Sen. Jon Husted's H-1B bill would replace the $60,000 salary line that exempts H-1B-dependent employers from recruitment attestations with twice the national average wage index, about $140,000 today.

H-1B

Oct 13, 2026 • Immigration News • 2 min read

DHS proposes ending automatic deference to prior USCIS approvals in work-visa extensions

A proposed rule would remove the regulation that tells USCIS officers to give weight to an earlier approval when the same employer and worker ask to extend an H-1B or another work visa. DHS expects more Requests for Evidence.

H-1B USCIS Processing Times

Oct 13, 2026 • Immigration News • 2 min read

USCIS finalizes the end of the 540-day automatic work-permit extension

A final rule reaffirms the October 2025 interim rule that stopped automatically extending expiring EADs for renewal applicants. It applies to renewal applications filed on or after October 30, 2025.

USCIS Processing Times Green Card

Oct 12, 2026 • Immigration News • 2 min read

DHS proposes a $70,000 fee for post-graduation work (OPT)

A Federal Register notice proposes charging F-1 students $70,000 for initial Optional Practical Training and $30,000 for later OPT. Comments are due November 9, 2026.

H-1B Green Card

Oct 12, 2026 • Case Approvals • 2 min read

EB-2 NIW and EB-1A approvals reported this week (Oct. 6–12)

Eight self-reported outcomes from public immigration forums this week: EB-2 NIW, EB-1A and EB-1B approvals, plus denial reports. These are unverified posts, not official statistics.

NIW EB-2 EB-1A Green Card

Oct 12, 2026 • Immigration News • 2 min read

Nine universities face a federal J-1 visa fraud investigation

Vice President JD Vance named Harvard, Yale, Stanford, Brown, MIT, Caltech, UC Davis, Pittsburgh and Arizona State at an October 8 press conference. The Labor Department's inspector general says subpoenas have been served.

H-1B Green Card

Oct 09, 2026 • Green Card • 3 min read

Labor Department freezes new and pending green card filings for Microsoft, Adobe and six IT outsourcers

On Oct. 8 the Labor Department said it would neither accept new nor process pending PERM labor certifications for Microsoft, Adobe, Cognizant, Infosys, TCS, Wipro, HCL and Capgemini, citing federal fraud investigations. Nine universities were also subpoenaed in a J-1 probe.

PERM H-1B EB-2 Green Card

Oct 09, 2026 • Immigration News • 2 min read

Labor Department says it will stop PERM cases at eight employers

On October 8, the Labor Secretary said DOL will not accept or process permanent labor certifications for Microsoft, Adobe, and six IT firms. The step is not an H-1B ban, and NIW and EB-1A filings do not use PERM.

EB-2 H-1B Green Card

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USCIS finalizes the end of the 540-day automatic work-permit extension

DHS proposes a $70,000 fee for post-graduation work (OPT)

EB-2 NIW and EB-1A approvals reported this week (Oct. 6–12)

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DHS proposes ending automatic deference to prior USCIS approvals in work-visa extensions

USCIS finalizes the end of the 540-day automatic work-permit extension

DHS proposes a $70,000 fee for post-graduation work (OPT)

EB-2 NIW and EB-1A approvals reported this week (Oct. 6–12)

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