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Retrogression Update: What to Expect in the Coming Months
RETROGRESSION UPDATESFiscal Year. October is the start of the fiscal year. This means that beginning next month, a new set of 140,000 visa numbers will become available again for the Employment-Based 3rd Preference Category (EB-3) as mandated by law...
Retrogression Update: Emergency Nursing Supply Relief Act (H.R. 2536)
RETROGRESSION UPDATEIn May this year, United States Congressmen Robert Wexler (D-FL) and F. James Sensenbrenner (R-WI) introduced the Emergency Nursing Supply Relief Act (H.R. 2536).The proposed legislation is very much similar in form and substanc...
Retrogression Update: May 2009 Visa Bulletin Released; EB3 Unavailable Until October 2009
RETROGRESSION UPDATEThe U.S. Department of State has released the Visa Bulletin for May 2009 with more bad news for would-be immigrants.AllCharge-abilityAreasExceptThoseListedCHINA-mainland bornINDIAMEXICOPHILIPPINESEmploy-ment-Based 1stCCCCC2ndC15FE...
H-1B Visa for Registered Nurses
The H-1B is a non-immigrant, work visa issued to professionals who belong to select group of “specialty occupations” defined in the U.S. Immigration and Nationality Act as one requiring theoretical and practical application of a body of highly sp...
Bill Creating Special Non-Immigrant Visa Category for Foreign Registered Nurses Introduced
RETROGRESSION UPDATEA bill has been filed in the U.S. Congress seeking to create a special non-immigrant visa category for filipino nurses and other foreign registered nurses.The proposed legislation dubbed, "The Nursing Relief Act of 2009" (H.R. 100...
Retrogression Update: CIS Ombudsman Issues Recommendations in Improving the Processing of Nurse Visas
RETROGRESSION UPDATERecognizing the worsening nursing shortage in the United States and its effect on the U.S. healthcare and economy, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security through the Office of the Citizenship and Immigration Services (CIS) Ombud...
Retrogression Update: Obama Outlines Immigration Policies
RETROGRESSION UPDATEAs americans count the days before Obama formally takes office on January 20 next year, filipino nurses are also looking forward to how an Obama presidency will positively impact their american dream in the midst of a seemingly n...
Retrogression Prospects in an Obama Presidency
RETROGRESSION UPDATETwo days ago, Americans made history in voting Barack Obama as America's first black President. Obama's 4-year term as President officially starts on January 20, 2009. He is America's 44th President.From a filipino nurse's perspec...
U.S. Congress Return to Session on Wednesday; House Judiciary Committee Set to Mark Up Key Visa Recapture Bills
RETROGRESSION UPDATEThe House Judiciary Committee will convene on September 10, 2008, Wednesday when the United States Congress return for a short session before going into recess again for the U.S. elections.Listed in the agenda is the mark up of se...
New Jersey Senator Files Bill Recapturing Unused Visa Numbers
RETROGRESSION UPDATEEarly this month, Senator Robert Menendez of New Jersey filed a bill called The Visa Efficiency and E-Verify Extension Act of 2008.The proposed legislation seeks to recapture unused or unclaimed employment-based visas and family-s...
July 2008 Visa Bulletin Released; Nurse Visa Category Becomes Unavailable
RETROGRESSION UPDATEAs projected in a Pinoy R.N. report last month, the employment-based 3rd preference (EB3) visa numbers for the month of July are unavailable according to the State Department's most recent visa bulletin (July 2008). The unavailab...
June 2008 Visa Bulletin Released; No Movement for EB3 Category
RETROGRESSION UPDATEAfter two months of rapid movements in the EB3 dates, the June 2008 Visa Bulletin released by the U.S. Department of State today showed that the priority dates for employment-based visas for filipino nurses remain at March 1, 2006...
Bill Lifting Visa Retrogression Filed
RETROGRESSION UPDATEToday is labor day in the Philippines and filipino nurses, the best labor export of this nation of 90 million, have something to smile about despite the bleak employment outlook locally.The Coalition to Improve Healthcare Staffing...
Texas Senator John Cornyn Files Bill for U.S. Global Competitiveness; Seeks to Recapture 61,000 Schedule A Visas for RNs and PTs Among Others
RETROGRESSION UPDATEIn an apparent response to an announcement by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) that it received enough petitions, in just 24 hours, to meet the congressionally-mandated cap of 65,000 H-1B visas available for next ...
May 2008 Visa Bulletin Released; EB3 Dates Move Forward to March 2006
RETROGRESSION UPDATEThe U.S. Department of State has released its Visa Bulletin for May 2008 and it showed all categories to be current except for EB2 and EB3.However, a bit of good news came with the bulletin as the EB3 category for the Philippines ...
April 2008 Visa Bulletin Released; EB3 Dates Jump Further to July 2005
RETROGRESSION UPDATEHere's a bit of good news for filipino nurses with approved immigrant petitions on or before July 1, 2005. The priority dates for the EB3 category, where professional nurses belong, has progressed to July 2005 from January 2005 la...
EB-3 Dates Jump to January 2005
RETROGRESSION UPDATEThe U.S. Department of State released its March 2008 Visa Bulletin a few days back and it reflected a significant update on the priority dates for the EB-3 visa category.Those petitioned under the EB-3 visa category before January...
Visa Recapture Dropped from Approriations Bill
RETROGRESSION UPDATEThe much talked-about Labor Health and Human Services appropriations bill, where a recapture of 61,000 nurse visas was initially attached, was approved yesterday by a combined conference committee of both the U.S. House and Senate...
U.S. Senate Passes Bill Recapturing 61,000 Schedule A Visas
RETROGRESSION UPDATEHammond Law Group reported today, in its website, that the U.S. senate formally passed and added a bridge amendment to the Labor Health and Human Services appropriations bill.The amendment calls for 61,000 visas for Schedule A occ...
U. S. Department of State Revises July 2007 Visa Bulletin; Retrogression is Back
RETROGRESSION UPDATEThe U.S. Department of State (DoS) today (July 2 in the US, July 3 in the Philippines) issued a revision on its previously released July 2007 Visa Bulletin effectively retrogressing all employment-based visa numbers.Last month, th...
Retrogression Lifted Temporarily; Senators Looking to Revive Stalled CIR Bill
RETROGRESSION UPDATEThe US Department of State has released its Visa Bulletin for July 2007. The bulletin includes a summary of available immigrant visa numbers. Effective July 1, 2007, all employment-based immigrant petitions will become "current."...
Retrogression Drags On As US Senate Withdraws Controversial Immigration Reform Measure
Retrogression Update ...The debates in the United States Senate on the proposed Comprehensive Immigration Reform (CIR) bill bogged down less than three hours ago after Democratic leader Harry Reid withdrew the controversial measure.The move came afte...
Proposed CIR Bill to Abolish 'Schedule A Category'
RETROGRESSION UPDATEGood News: A few days ago, the US senate announced that they have reached a 'deal' on the polarized issue of Immigration Reform.Bad News: The supposed deal eliminates the 'Schedule A Category'Passage of a long-overdue immigration...
NY Times Sees Possible Compromise on CIR Debates
RETROGRESSION UPDATEThe April 22 editorial of the New York Times spoke of "Touchbacks" and "Triggers" which are viewed to be potential areas of compromise in a much heated and highly polarized debate on US immigration reform...."Touchbacks" refers to...
Retrogession Update: Two New Bills Introduced
The Hammond Law Group (HLG) announced the introduction of two (2) new bills in the United States senate believed to be beneficial to international healthcare workers, specifically nurses and physical therapists....The first bill is a re-introduction...
Hutchison Amendment Shot Down
The Hammond Law Group (HLG) today announced that S.4 where the recapture provision was attached, passed but without the Hutchison amendment recapturing 90,000 unused visa numbers for nurses and physical therapists.A new bill with the same racapture a...
