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Emergency Stopgap USCIS Stabilization Act This bill expands Department of Homeland Security (DHS) authority to provide premium processing services for certain immigration-related applications and contains other related provisions. DHS may collect a fee to provide premium processing of an application for any immigration benefit that DHS considers appropriate, subject to certain requirements. Currently, DHS only has statutory authority to provide premium processing for employment-based applications. Under current law, DHS must use such premium fees to provide premium processing services and make infrastructure improvements. Under this bill, such fees shall be used for these purposes and other activities that offset the cost of providing adjudication and naturalization services. DHS may suspend premium processing of applications only if circumstances prevent the timely processing of a significant number of such applications. DHS shall provide those who have requested premium processing with access to case status information and communications channels to the premium processing units. DHS may expand premium processing to certain immigrant benefits and set fees for such processing without following certain rulemaking procedures if DHS meets certain requirements, such as limiting the premium fee to specified amounts. The bill also increases the premium fees charged to applicants. DHS may, subject to requirements, biennially adjust premium fees to reflect inflation without following certain rulemaking requirements.
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2020 · fourth_quarter · Immigration
H.R. 6, American Dream and Promise Act of 2019 H.R. 60, Better Agriculture Resources Now (BARN) Act H.R. 250, Legal Workforce Act H.R. 549, Venezuela TPS Act of 2019 H.R. 641/S. 175, Agricultural Worker Program Act of 2019 H.R. 648, Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2019 H.R. 748, Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act H.R. 773, To Terminate the EB-5 program H.R. 1044/S. 386, Fairness for High-Skilled Immigrants Act of 2019 H.R. 1158, Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2020 H.R. 1399/S.556, Accountability Through Electronic Verification Act H.R. 1740, Workforce for an Expanding Economy Act H.R. 1778, Dairy and Sheep H-2A Visa Enhancement Act H.R. 1865, Further Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2020 H.R. 1996, Secure Travel Partnership Act of 2019 H.R. 2187, Jobs Originated through Launching Travel (JOLT) Act of 2019 H.R. 2278/S. 1103, Reforming American Immigration for a Strong Economy (RAISE) Act H.R. 2413, Nicaragua TPS Act of 2019 H.R. 2418/H.R. 2877/S. 3134, To add Ireland to the E-3 nonimmigrant visa program H.R. 2658, Commercial Fishing and Seafood Business Act of 2019 H.R. 2783, TPS and DED Protection Act of 2019 H.R. 2813, Asylum Seeker Work Authorization Act of 2019 H.R. 2820, Dream Act of 2019 H.R. 2821, American Promise Act of 2019 H.R. 2895/S. 948, Conrad State 30 and Physician Access Reauthorization Act H.R. 3033, H-4 Employment Protection Act of 2019 H.R. 3055, Further Continuing Appropriations Act, 2020, and Further Health Extenders Act of 2019 H.R. 3319, Paperwork Reduction for Farmers and H-2A Modernization Act H.R. 3401/S. 1900, Emergency Supplemental Appropriations for Humanitarian Assistance and Security at the Southern Border Act, 2019 H.R. 3564, Fairness for High-Skilled Americans Act of 2019 H.R. 3740, AGRI Act of 2019 H.R. 4218, Poland Visa Waiver Act of 2019 H.R. 4482, Protecting America's Food and Agriculture Act of 2019 H.R. 4498, Promoting Tourism to Enhance our Economy Act of 2019 H.R. 5038, Farm Workforce Modernization Act of 2019 H.R. 5174, State Sponsored Visa Pilot Program Act of 2019 H.R. 6379, Take Responsibility for Workers and Families Act H.R. 6395/S. 4049, National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2021 H.R. 6507, COVID-19 Employment Authorization Document Extension Act H.R. 6717, Health Care Workforce Protection Act of 2020 H.R. 6788/S. 3599, Healthcare Workforce Resilience Act H.R. 6800, The Heroes Act H.R. 6870, Landscaping Workforce Act of 2020 H.R. 6905, FIRST COVID-19 Care Delivery Act of 2020 H.R. 6993/S. 3770, H-1B and L-1 Visa Reform Act of 2020 H.R. 7508, To provide supplemental appropriations to U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, and for other purposes. H.R. 7669, Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act, 2021 H.R. 8046, Improving Opportunities for New Americans Act of 2020 H.R. 8078, Emergency Stopgap USCIS Stabilization Act H.R. 8089, Emergency Stopgap USCIS Stabilization Act H.R. 8337, Continuing Appropriations Act, 2021 and Other Extensions Act S. 135, Prioritizing Help to Businesses Act S. 301, E-Verify Act of 2019 S. 328, Startup Act S. 599, Singh's Law S. 636, Venezuela Temporary Protected Status Act of 2019 S. 874, Dream Act of 2019 S. 1004, Securing America's Ports of Entry Act of 2019 S. 1744, Keep STEM Talent Act of 2019 S. 1806, Permanent E-Verify Act S. 1887, Paperwork Reduction for Farmers and H-2A Modernization Act S. 2091, Backlog Elimination, Legal Immigration, and Employment Visa Enhancement Act S. 2540, EB-5 Reform and Integrity Act of 2019 S. 2778, Immigrant Investor Program Reform Act S. 2863, E Visa Integrity Act of 2019 S. 2926, Advancing Mutual Interests and Growing Our Success (AMIGOS) Act S. 3470, New Deal for New Americans Act of 2020 S. 3504, A bill to require the Secretary of Homeland Security to extend, until not earlier than September 30, 2021, the requirement that State-issued identification must be compliant with the REAL ID Act of 2005 to be accepted by Federal agencies for certain purposes H.J.Res. 31, Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2019 Potential legislation similar to H.R. 6794/S. 2344, Immigration Innovation Act of 2018 Proposed rule regarding registration requirement for petitioners seeking to file H-1B petitions on behalf of cap-subject aliens (83 Fed. Reg. 62,406-62,447, December 3, 2018) Interim final rule on strengthening the H-1B nonimmigrant visa classification program (85 Fed. Reg. 63,918-63,965, October 8, 2020) Interim final rule on strengthening wage protections for the temporary and permanent employment of certain aliens in the United States, (85 Fed. Reg. 63,872-63,915, October 8, 2020) Proposed rule establishing a fixed time period of admission and an extension of stay procedure for nonimmigrant academic students, exchange visitors, and representatives of foreign information media; 85 Fed. Reg. 60,526-60,598, September 25, 2020) Various issues relating to visa waiver program; H-1B Visa Program; H-1B registration rule; H-2 Visa Program and temporary rule; H-4 rule; L-1 Visa Program; EB-5 Visa Program; EB-5 rule; EB-5 regional center program; H-2A Visa Program; E-Verify program; I-129 form delay request; private-public partnerships with the Department of Homeland Security at land border ports of entry; STEM visa reform; nonimmigrant workers in temporary or seasonal nonagricultural employment; Customs and Border Protection staffing at U.S. ports of entry; border security; immigration policy and reforms; guest worker programs; legalization concepts; visa reform; customs trade facilitation and enforcement; Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program; extension of temporary protected status (TPS) designations for El Salvador, Honduras, and Haiti; administrative-regulatory efforts related to public charge, notice to appear, H-4 & OPT; supplemental funding for additional Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers at ports-of-entry; United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) decision on electronic registration for the fiscal year (FY) 2021 H-1B cap filing season and stakeholder engagement for the H-1B registration tool; United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) fee schedule; United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) funding; Presidential Proclamation 9996, suspension of entry as immigrants and nonimmigrants of certain additional persons who pose a risk of transmitting 2019 Novel Coronavirus, March 14, 2020; Presidential Proclamation 10014, suspending entry of immigrants who present risk to the U.S. labor market during the economic recovery following the COVID-19 outbreak, April 22, 2020; Presidential Proclamation 10052, suspending entry of aliens who present a risk to the U.S. labor market following the Coronavirus outbreak, June 22, 2020; Potential recision of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program; comments on modification of registration requirement for petitioners seeking to file cap-subject H-1B petitions; comments on request for 60-Day comment period (30-day extension); high-skilled immigration; lesser skilled immigration; temporary agriculture guest worker; temporary non-agriculture guest worker; optional practical training program; size and administration of employment-based immigrant visa categories; size and administration of family-based immigrant visa categories; expansion of the use of the E-Verify system; employment verification; interior enforcement; family separations; family reunification; temporary suspension of entry of nationals from certain countries; increased vetting of visa applicants; unfair immigration related employment practices; travel issues; trusted traveler programs; biometric entry-exit; increasing the number of ICE officers, border patrol agents and Customs and Border Protection officers; aerial security enhancements; temporary DHS guidance for the I-9 employment verification process in the wake of COVID-19; Department of Labor Guidance on Labor Condition Application requirements in the wake of COVID-19; temporary Department of Labor procedural changes regarding the Permanent Labor Certification process in the wake of COVID-19; State Department policy accommodations regarding the use of interview waivers for H-2 nonimmigrant workers in the wake of COVID-19; temporary United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) procedures to provide flexibility with regard to filing deadlines, and temporary USCIS guidelines providing flexibility to wet-ink signatures on USCIS forms and documents; United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) funding shortfalls; Customs and Border Protection (CBP) funding shortfalls; clarification of the criteria that makes one eligible for a waiver from the entry restrictions for various employment-based immigrants and nonimmigrants; regulatory proposals that would restrict applicant eligibility for the H-1B program; regulatory proposals that would drastically change how prevailing wage levels are determined for the purposes of obtaining certain employment nonimmigrant and immigrant visas; proposals that would significantly change how cap-subject H-1B petitions will be chosen in the future; regulatory proposals that would change how the period of admission for student visa holders and exchange visa holders is determined; enhanced COVID-19 testing protocols for international air travel; creation/use of digital passports
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Client expense: $22,290,000 · Firm income: Not reported
Government targets: Agriculture, Dept of (USDA), Army, Dept of (Corps of Engineers), Bureau of Citizenship & Immigration Services (BCIS), Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS), Commerce, Dept of (DOC), Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), Defense, Dept of (DOD), Education, Dept of, Energy, Dept of, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), Executive Office of the President (EOP), Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), Federal Communications Commission (FCC), Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), Federal Reserve System, Federal Trade Commission (FTC), Government Accountability Office (GAO), HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Health & Human Services, Dept of (HHS), Homeland Security, Dept of (DHS), Housing & Urban Development, Dept of (HUD), Interior, Dept of (DOI), Internal Revenue Service (IRS), Justice, Dept of (DOJ), Labor, Dept of (DOL), Natl Economic Council (NEC), Natl Institute of Standards & Technology (NIST), Natl Labor Relations Board (NLRB), Natl Security Council (NSC), Natl Telecommunications & Information Administration (NTIA), Office of Management & Budget (OMB), Office of Science & Technology Policy (OSTP), Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), Patent & Trademark Office (PTO), Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC), SENATE, Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC), Small Business Administration (SBA), State, Dept of (DOS), Transportation, Dept of (DOT), Treasury, Dept of, U.S. Copyright Office, U.S. Customs & Border Protection, U.S. Trade Representative (USTR), White House Office
2020 · third_quarter · Immigration
H.R. 6, American Dream and Promise Act of 2019 H.R. 60, Better Agriculture Resources Now (BARN) Act H.R. 250, Legal Workforce Act H.R. 549, Venezuela TPS Act of 2019 H.R. 641/S. 175, Agricultural Worker Program Act of 2019 H.R. 648, Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2019 H.R. 748/S. 3548, Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act H.R. 773, To Terminate the EB-5 program H.R. 1044/S. 386, Fairness for High-Skilled Immigrants Act of 2019 H.R. 1158, Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2020 H.R. 1399/S.556, Accountability Through Electronic Verification Act H.R. 1740, Workforce for an Expanding Economy Act H.R. 1778, Dairy and Sheep H-2A Visa Enhancement Act H.R. 1865, Further Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2020 H.R. 1996, Secure Travel Partnership Act of 2019 H.R. 2187, Jobs Originated through Launching Travel (JOLT) Act of 2019 H.R. 2278/S. 1103, Reforming American Immigration for a Strong Economy (RAISE) Act H.R. 2413, Nicaragua TPS Act of 2019 H.R. 2418/H.R. 2877/S. 3134, To add Ireland to the E-3 nonimmigrant visa program H.R. 2658, Commercial Fishing and Seafood Business Act of 2019 H.R. 2783, TPS and DED Protection Act of 2019 H.R. 2813, Asylum Seeker Work Authorization Act of 2019 H.R. 2820, Dream Act of 2019 H.R. 2821, American Promise Act of 2019 H.R. 2895/S. 948, Conrad State 30 and Physician Access Reauthorization Act H.R. 3033, H-4 Employment Protection Act of 2019 H.R. 3055, Further Continuing Appropriations Act, 2020, and Further Health Extenders Act of 2019 H.R. 3319, Paperwork Reduction for Farmers and H-2A Modernization Act H.R. 3401/S. 1900, Emergency Supplemental Appropriations for Humanitarian Assistance and Security at the Southern Border Act, 2019 H.R. 3564, Fairness for High-Skilled Americans Act of 2019 H.R. 3740, AGRI Act of 2019 H.R. 4218, Poland Visa Waiver Act of 2019 H.R. 4482, Protecting America's Food and Agriculture Act of 2019 H.R. 4498, Promoting Tourism to Enhance our Economy Act of 2019 H.R. 5038, Farm Workforce Modernization Act of 2019 H.R. 5174, State Sponsored Visa Pilot Program Act of 2019 H.R. 6312, COVID-19 Relief for Small Businesses Act of 2020 H.R. 6379, Take Responsibility for Workers and Families Act H.R. 6395/S. 4049, National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2021 H.R. 6404, To extend the deadline for States to meet the requirements of the REAL ID Act of 2005 due to COVID-19 H.R. 6507, COVID-19 Employment Authorization Document Extension Act H.R. 6717, Health Care Workforce Protection Act of 2020 H.R. 6788/S. 3599, Healthcare Workforce Resilience Act H.R. 6800, The Heroes Act H.R. 6870, Landscaping Workforce Act of 2020 H.R. 6905, FIRST COVID-19 Care Delivery Act of 2020 H.R. 6993/S. 3770, H-1B and L-1 Visa Reform Act of 2020 H.R. 7508, To provide supplemental appropriations to U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, and for other purposes. H.R. 7669, Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act, 2021 H.R. 8046, Improving Opportunities for New Americans Act of 2020 H.R. 8078, Emergency Stopgap USCIS Stabilization Act H.R. 8089, Emergency Stopgap USCIS Stabilization Act H.R. 8337, Continuing Appropriations Act, 2021 and Other Extensions Act S. 135, Prioritizing Help to Businesses Act S. 301, E-Verify Act of 2019 S. 328, Startup Act S. 599, Singh's Law S. 636, Venezuela Temporary Protected Status Act of 2019 S. 874, Dream Act of 2019 S. 1004, Securing America's Ports of Entry Act of 2019 S. 1744, Keep STEM Talent Act of 2019 S. 1806, Permanent E-Verify Act S. 1887, Paperwork Reduction for Farmers and H-2A Modernization Act S. 2091, Backlog Elimination, Legal Immigration, and Employment Visa Enhancement Act S. 2540, EB-5 Reform and Integrity Act of 2019 S. 2778, Immigrant Investor Program Reform Act S. 2863, E Visa Integrity Act of 2019 S. 2926, Advancing Mutual Interests and Growing Our Success (AMIGOS) Act S. 3470, New Deal for New Americans Act of 2020 S. 3504, A bill to require the Secretary of Homeland Security to extend, until not earlier than September 30, 2021, the requirement that State-issued identification must be compliant with the REAL ID Act of 2005 to be accepted by Federal agencies for certain purposes H.J.Res. 31, Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2019 Potential legislation updating The Heroes Act (116th Cong.) Potential legislation similar to H.R. 6794/S. 2344, Immigration Innovation Act of 2018 Proposed rule regarding registration requirement for petitioners seeking to file H-1B petitions on behalf of cap-subject aliens (83 Fed. Reg. 62,406-62,447, December 3, 2018) Various issues relating to visa waiver program; H-1B Visa Program; H-1B registration rule; H-2 Visa Program and temporary rule; H-4 rule; L-1 Visa Program; EB-5 Visa Program; EB-5 rule; EB-5 regional center program; H-2A Visa Program; E-Verify program; I-129 form delay request; private-public partnerships with the Department of Homeland Security at land border ports of entry; STEM visa reform; nonimmigrant workers in temporary or seasonal nonagricultural employment; Customs and Border Protection staffing at U.S. ports of entry; border security; immigration policy and reforms; guest worker programs; legalization concepts; visa reform; customs trade facilitation and enforcement; Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program; extension of temporary protected status (TPS) designations for El Salvador, Honduras, and Haiti; administrative-regulatory efforts related to public charge, notice to appear, H-4 & OPT; supplemental funding for additional Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers at ports-of-entry; United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) decision on electronic registration for the fiscal year (FY) 2021 H-1B cap filing season and stakeholder engagement for the H-1B registration tool; United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) fee schedule; United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) funding; Presidential Proclamation 9996, suspension of entry as immigrants and nonimmigrants of certain additional persons who pose a risk of transmitting 2019 Novel Coronavirus, March 14, 2020; Presidential Proclamation 10014, suspending entry of immigrants who present risk to the U.S. labor market during the economic recovery following the COVID-19 outbreak, April 22, 2020; Presidential Proclamation 10052, suspending entry of aliens who present a risk to the U.S. labor market following the Coronavirus outbreak, June 22, 2020; Potential recision of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program; high-skilled immigration; lesser skilled immigration; temporary agriculture guest worker; temporary non-agriculture guest worker; optional practical training program; size and administration of employment-based immigrant visa categories; size and administration of family-based immigrant visa categories; expansion of the use of the E-Verify system; employment verification; interior enforcement; family separations; family reunification; temporary suspension of entry of nationals from certain countries; increased vetting of visa applicants; unfair immigration related employment practices; travel issues; trusted traveler programs; biometric entry-exit; increasing the number of ICE officers, border patrol agents and Customs and Border Protection officers; aerial security enhancements; temporary DHS guidance for the I-9 employment verification process in the wake of COVID-19; Department of Labor Guidance on Labor Condition Application requirements in the wake of COVID-19; temporary Department of Labor procedural changes regarding the Permanent Labor Certification process in the wake of COVID-19; State Department policy accommodations regarding the use of interview waivers for H-2 nonimmigrant workers in the wake of COVID-19; temporary United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) procedures to provide flexibility with regard to filing deadlines, and temporary USCIS guidelines providing flexibility to wet-ink signatures on USCIS forms and documents; United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) funding shortfalls; Customs and Border Protection (CBP) funding shortfalls; clarification of the criteria that makes one eligible for a waiver from the entry restrictions for various employment-based immigrants and nonimmigrants; forthcoming regulatory proposals that would restrict applicant eligibility for the H-1B program; forthcoming regulatory proposals that would drastically change how prevailing wage levels are determined for the purposes of obtaining certain employment nonimmigrant and immigrant visas; forthcoming proposals that would significantly change how cap-subject H-1B petitions will be chosen in the future
Client expense: $20,000,000 · Firm income: Not reported
Government targets: Agriculture, Dept of (USDA), Army, Dept of (Corps of Engineers), Bureau of Citizenship & Immigration Services (BCIS), Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS), Bureau of Reclamation, Commerce, Dept of (DOC), Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ), Defense, Dept of (DOD), Education, Dept of, Energy, Dept of, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), Executive Office of the President (EOP), Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), Federal Communications Commission (FCC), Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, Federal Reserve System, Federal Trade Commission (FTC), General Services Administration (GSA), Government Accountability Office (GAO), HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Health & Human Services, Dept of (HHS), Homeland Security, Dept of (DHS), Housing & Urban Development, Dept of (HUD), Interior, Dept of (DOI), Internal Revenue Service (IRS), Justice, Dept of (DOJ), Labor, Dept of (DOL), Natl Economic Council (NEC), Natl Institute of Standards & Technology (NIST), Natl Labor Relations Board (NLRB), Natl Security Council (NSC), Natl Telecommunications & Information Administration (NTIA), Office of Management & Budget (OMB), Office of Science & Technology Policy (OSTP), Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), Patent & Trademark Office (PTO), Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC), SENATE, Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC), Small Business Administration (SBA), State, Dept of (DOS), Transportation Security Administration (TSA), Transportation, Dept of (DOT), Treasury, Dept of, U.S. Copyright Office, U.S. Customs & Border Protection, U.S. Trade Representative (USTR), White House Office
2020 · third_quarter · Immigration
H.R. 6, American Dream and Promise Act of 2019 H.R. 60, Better Agriculture Resources Now (BARN) Act H.R. 250, Legal Workforce Act H.R. 549, Venezuela TPS Act of 2019 H.R. 641/S. 175, Agricultural Worker Program Act of 2019 H.R. 648, Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2019 H.R. 748/S. 3548, Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act H.R. 773, To Terminate the EB-5 program H.R. 1044/S. 386, Fairness for High-Skilled Immigrants Act of 2019 H.R. 1158, Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2020 H.R. 1399/S.556, Accountability Through Electronic Verification Act H.R. 1740, Workforce for an Expanding Economy Act H.R. 1778, Dairy and Sheep H-2A Visa Enhancement Act H.R. 1865, Further Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2020 H.R. 1996, Secure Travel Partnership Act of 2019 H.R. 2187, Jobs Originated through Launching Travel (JOLT) Act of 2019 H.R. 2278/S. 1103, Reforming American Immigration for a Strong Economy (RAISE) Act H.R. 2413, Nicaragua TPS Act of 2019 H.R. 2418/H.R. 2877/S. 3134, To add Ireland to the E-3 nonimmigrant visa program H.R. 2658, Commercial Fishing and Seafood Business Act of 2019 H.R. 2783, TPS and DED Protection Act of 2019 H.R. 2813, Asylum Seeker Work Authorization Act of 2019 H.R. 2820, Dream Act of 2019 H.R. 2821, American Promise Act of 2019 H.R. 2895/S. 948, Conrad State 30 and Physician Access Reauthorization Act H.R. 3033, H-4 Employment Protection Act of 2019 H.R. 3055, Further Continuing Appropriations Act, 2020, and Further Health Extenders Act of 2019 H.R. 3319, Paperwork Reduction for Farmers and H-2A Modernization Act H.R. 3401/S. 1900, Emergency Supplemental Appropriations for Humanitarian Assistance and Security at the Southern Border Act, 2019 H.R. 3564, Fairness for High-Skilled Americans Act of 2019 H.R. 3740, AGRI Act of 2019 H.R. 4218, Poland Visa Waiver Act of 2019 H.R. 4482, Protecting America's Food and Agriculture Act of 2019 H.R. 4498, Promoting Tourism to Enhance our Economy Act of 2019 H.R. 5038, Farm Workforce Modernization Act of 2019 H.R. 5174, State Sponsored Visa Pilot Program Act of 2019 H.R. 6312, COVID-19 Relief for Small Businesses Act of 2020 H.R. 6379, Take Responsibility for Workers and Families Act H.R. 6395/S. 4049, National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2021 H.R. 6404, To extend the deadline for States to meet the requirements of the REAL ID Act of 2005 due to COVID-19 H.R. 6507, COVID-19 Employment Authorization Document Extension Act H.R. 6717, Health Care Workforce Protection Act of 2020 H.R. 6788/S. 3599, Healthcare Workforce Resilience Act H.R. 6800, The Heroes Act H.R. 6870, Landscaping Workforce Act of 2020 H.R. 6905, FIRST COVID-19 Care Delivery Act of 2020 H.R. 6993/S. 3770, H-1B and L-1 Visa Reform Act of 2020 H.R. 7508, To provide supplemental appropriations to U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, and for other purposes. H.R. 7669, Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act, 2021 H.R. 8046, Improving Opportunities for New Americans Act of 2020 H.R. 8078, Emergency Stopgap USCIS Stabilization Act H.R. 8089, Emergency Stopgap USCIS Stabilization Act H.R. 8337, Continuing Appropriations Act, 2021 and Other Extensions Act S. 135, Prioritizing Help to Businesses Act S. 301, E-Verify Act of 2019 S. 328, Startup Act S. 599, Singh's Law S. 636, Venezuela Temporary Protected Status Act of 2019 S. 874, Dream Act of 2019 S. 1004, Securing America's Ports of Entry Act of 2019 S. 1744, Keep STEM Talent Act of 2019 S. 1806, Permanent E-Verify Act S. 1887, Paperwork Reduction for Farmers and H-2A Modernization Act S. 2091, Backlog Elimination, Legal Immigration, and Employment Visa Enhancement Act S. 2540, EB-5 Reform and Integrity Act of 2019 S. 2778, Immigrant Investor Program Reform Act S. 2863, E Visa Integrity Act of 2019 S. 2926, Advancing Mutual Interests and Growing Our Success (AMIGOS) Act S. 3470, New Deal for New Americans Act of 2020 S. 3504, A bill to require the Secretary of Homeland Security to extend, until not earlier than September 30, 2021, the requirement that State-issued identification must be compliant with the REAL ID Act of 2005 to be accepted by Federal agencies for certain purposes H.J.Res. 31, Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2019 Potential legislation updating The Heroes Act (116th Cong.) Potential legislation similar to H.R. 6794/S. 2344, Immigration Innovation Act of 2018 Proposed rule regarding registration requirement for petitioners seeking to file H-1B petitions on behalf of cap-subject aliens (83 Fed. Reg. 62,406-62,447, December 3, 2018) Various issues relating to visa waiver program; H-1B Visa Program; H-1B registration rule; H-2 Visa Program and temporary rule; H-4 rule; L-1 Visa Program; EB-5 Visa Program; EB-5 rule; EB-5 regional center program; H-2A Visa Program; E-Verify program; I-129 form delay request; private-public partnerships with the Department of Homeland Security at land border ports of entry; STEM visa reform; nonimmigrant workers in temporary or seasonal nonagricultural employment; Customs and Border Protection staffing at U.S. ports of entry; border security; immigration policy and reforms; guest worker programs; legalization concepts; visa reform; customs trade facilitation and enforcement; Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program; extension of temporary protected status (TPS) designations for El Salvador, Honduras, and Haiti; administrative-regulatory efforts related to public charge, notice to appear, H-4 & OPT; supplemental funding for additional Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers at ports-of-entry; United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) decision on electronic registration for the fiscal year (FY) 2021 H-1B cap filing season and stakeholder engagement for the H-1B registration tool; United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) fee schedule; United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) funding; Presidential Proclamation 9996, suspension of entry as immigrants and nonimmigrants of certain additional persons who pose a risk of transmitting 2019 Novel Coronavirus, March 14, 2020; Presidential Proclamation 10014, suspending entry of immigrants who present risk to the U.S. labor market during the economic recovery following the COVID-19 outbreak, April 22, 2020; Presidential Proclamation 10052, suspending entry of aliens who present a risk to the U.S. labor market following the Coronavirus outbreak, June 22, 2020; Potential recision of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program; high-skilled immigration; lesser skilled immigration; temporary agriculture guest worker; temporary non-agriculture guest worker; optional practical training program; size and administration of employment-based immigrant visa categories; size and administration of family-based immigrant visa categories; expansion of the use of the E-Verify system; employment verification; interior enforcement; family separations; family reunification; temporary suspension of entry of nationals from certain countries; increased vetting of visa applicants; unfair immigration related employment practices; travel issues; trusted traveler programs; biometric entry-exit; increasing the number of ICE officers, border patrol agents and Customs and Border Protection officers; aerial security enhancements; temporary DHS guidance for the I-9 employment verification process in the wake of COVID-19; Department of Labor Guidance on Labor Condition Application requirements in the wake of COVID-19; temporary Department of Labor procedural changes regarding the Permanent Labor Certification process in the wake of COVID-19; State Department policy accommodations regarding the use of interview waivers for H-2 nonimmigrant workers in the wake of COVID-19; temporary United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) procedures to provide flexibility with regard to filing deadlines, and temporary USCIS guidelines providing flexibility to wet-ink signatures on USCIS forms and documents; United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) funding shortfalls; Customs and Border Protection (CBP) funding shortfalls; clarification of the criteria that makes one eligible for a waiver from the entry restrictions for various employment-based immigrants and nonimmigrants; forthcoming regulatory proposals that would restrict applicant eligibility for the H-1B program; forthcoming regulatory proposals that would drastically change how prevailing wage levels are determined for the purposes of obtaining certain employment nonimmigrant and immigrant visas; forthcoming proposals that would significantly change how cap-subject H-1B petitions will be chosen in the future
Client expense: $20,000,000 · Firm income: Not reported
Government targets: Agriculture, Dept of (USDA), Army, Dept of (Corps of Engineers), Bureau of Citizenship & Immigration Services (BCIS), Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS), Bureau of Reclamation, Commerce, Dept of (DOC), Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ), Defense, Dept of (DOD), Education, Dept of, Energy, Dept of, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), Executive Office of the President (EOP), Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), Federal Communications Commission (FCC), Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, Federal Reserve System, Federal Trade Commission (FTC), General Services Administration (GSA), Government Accountability Office (GAO), HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Health & Human Services, Dept of (HHS), Homeland Security, Dept of (DHS), Housing & Urban Development, Dept of (HUD), Interior, Dept of (DOI), Internal Revenue Service (IRS), Justice, Dept of (DOJ), Labor, Dept of (DOL), Natl Economic Council (NEC), Natl Institute of Standards & Technology (NIST), Natl Labor Relations Board (NLRB), Natl Security Council (NSC), Natl Telecommunications & Information Administration (NTIA), Office of Management & Budget (OMB), Office of Science & Technology Policy (OSTP), Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), Patent & Trademark Office (PTO), Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC), SENATE, Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC), Small Business Administration (SBA), State, Dept of (DOS), Transportation Security Administration (TSA), Transportation, Dept of (DOT), Treasury, Dept of, U.S. Copyright Office, U.S. Customs & Border Protection, U.S. Trade Representative (USTR), White House Office
2020 · third_quarter · Immigration
H.R. 6, American Dream and Promise Act of 2019 H.R. 60, Better Agriculture Resources Now (BARN) Act H.R. 250, Legal Workforce Act H.R. 549, Venezuela TPS Act of 2019 H.R. 641/S. 175, Agricultural Worker Program Act of 2019 H.R. 648, Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2019 H.R. 748/S. 3548, Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act H.R. 773, To Terminate the EB-5 program H.R. 1044/S. 386, Fairness for High-Skilled Immigrants Act of 2019 H.R. 1158, Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2020 H.R. 1399/S.556, Accountability Through Electronic Verification Act H.R. 1740, Workforce for an Expanding Economy Act H.R. 1778, Dairy and Sheep H-2A Visa Enhancement Act H.R. 1865, Further Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2020 H.R. 1996, Secure Travel Partnership Act of 2019 H.R. 2187, Jobs Originated through Launching Travel (JOLT) Act of 2019 H.R. 2278/S. 1103, Reforming American Immigration for a Strong Economy (RAISE) Act H.R. 2413, Nicaragua TPS Act of 2019 H.R. 2418/H.R. 2877/S. 3134, To add Ireland to the E-3 nonimmigrant visa program H.R. 2658, Commercial Fishing and Seafood Business Act of 2019 H.R. 2783, TPS and DED Protection Act of 2019 H.R. 2813, Asylum Seeker Work Authorization Act of 2019 H.R. 2820, Dream Act of 2019 H.R. 2821, American Promise Act of 2019 H.R. 2895/S. 948, Conrad State 30 and Physician Access Reauthorization Act H.R. 3033, H-4 Employment Protection Act of 2019 H.R. 3055, Further Continuing Appropriations Act, 2020, and Further Health Extenders Act of 2019 H.R. 3319, Paperwork Reduction for Farmers and H-2A Modernization Act H.R. 3401/S. 1900, Emergency Supplemental Appropriations for Humanitarian Assistance and Security at the Southern Border Act, 2019 H.R. 3564, Fairness for High-Skilled Americans Act of 2019 H.R. 3740, AGRI Act of 2019 H.R. 4218, Poland Visa Waiver Act of 2019 H.R. 4482, Protecting America's Food and Agriculture Act of 2019 H.R. 4498, Promoting Tourism to Enhance our Economy Act of 2019 H.R. 5038, Farm Workforce Modernization Act of 2019 H.R. 5174, State Sponsored Visa Pilot Program Act of 2019 H.R. 6312, COVID-19 Relief for Small Businesses Act of 2020 H.R. 6379, Take Responsibility for Workers and Families Act H.R. 6395/S. 4049, National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2021 H.R. 6404, To extend the deadline for States to meet the requirements of the REAL ID Act of 2005 due to COVID-19 H.R. 6507, COVID-19 Employment Authorization Document Extension Act H.R. 6717, Health Care Workforce Protection Act of 2020 H.R. 6788/S. 3599, Healthcare Workforce Resilience Act H.R. 6800, The Heroes Act H.R. 6870, Landscaping Workforce Act of 2020 H.R. 6905, FIRST COVID-19 Care Delivery Act of 2020 H.R. 6993/S. 3770, H-1B and L-1 Visa Reform Act of 2020 H.R. 7508, To provide supplemental appropriations to U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, and for other purposes. H.R. 7669, Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act, 2021 H.R. 8046, Improving Opportunities for New Americans Act of 2020 H.R. 8078, Emergency Stopgap USCIS Stabilization Act H.R. 8089, Emergency Stopgap USCIS Stabilization Act H.R. 8337, Continuing Appropriations Act, 2021 and Other Extensions Act S. 135, Prioritizing Help to Businesses Act S. 301, E-Verify Act of 2019 S. 328, Startup Act S. 599, Singh's Law S. 636, Venezuela Temporary Protected Status Act of 2019 S. 874, Dream Act of 2019 S. 1004, Securing America's Ports of Entry Act of 2019 S. 1744, Keep STEM Talent Act of 2019 S. 1806, Permanent E-Verify Act S. 1887, Paperwork Reduction for Farmers and H-2A Modernization Act S. 2091, Backlog Elimination, Legal Immigration, and Employment Visa Enhancement Act S. 2540, EB-5 Reform and Integrity Act of 2019 S. 2778, Immigrant Investor Program Reform Act S. 2863, E Visa Integrity Act of 2019 S. 2926, Advancing Mutual Interests and Growing Our Success (AMIGOS) Act S. 3470, New Deal for New Americans Act of 2020 S. 3504, A bill to require the Secretary of Homeland Security to extend, until not earlier than September 30, 2021, the requirement that State-issued identification must be compliant with the REAL ID Act of 2005 to be accepted by Federal agencies for certain purposes H.J.Res. 31, Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2019 Potential legislation updating The Heroes Act (116th Cong.) Potential legislation similar to H.R. 6794/S. 2344, Immigration Innovation Act of 2018 Proposed rule regarding registration requirement for petitioners seeking to file H-1B petitions on behalf of cap-subject aliens (83 Fed. Reg. 62,406-62,447, December 3, 2018) Various issues relating to visa waiver program; H-1B Visa Program; H-1B registration rule; H-2 Visa Program and temporary rule; H-4 rule; L-1 Visa Program; EB-5 Visa Program; EB-5 rule; EB-5 regional center program; H-2A Visa Program; E-Verify program; I-129 form delay request; private-public partnerships with the Department of Homeland Security at land border ports of entry; STEM visa reform; nonimmigrant workers in temporary or seasonal nonagricultural employment; Customs and Border Protection staffing at U.S. ports of entry; border security; immigration policy and reforms; guest worker programs; legalization concepts; visa reform; customs trade facilitation and enforcement; Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program; extension of temporary protected status (TPS) designations for El Salvador, Honduras, and Haiti; administrative-regulatory efforts related to public charge, notice to appear, H-4 & OPT; supplemental funding for additional Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers at ports-of-entry; United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) decision on electronic registration for the fiscal year (FY) 2021 H-1B cap filing season and stakeholder engagement for the H-1B registration tool; United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) fee schedule; United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) funding; Presidential Proclamation 9996, suspension of entry as immigrants and nonimmigrants of certain additional persons who pose a risk of transmitting 2019 Novel Coronavirus, March 14, 2020; Presidential Proclamation 10014, suspending entry of immigrants who present risk to the U.S. labor market during the economic recovery following the COVID-19 outbreak, April 22, 2020; Presidential Proclamation 10052, suspending entry of aliens who present a risk to the U.S. labor market following the Coronavirus outbreak, June 22, 2020; Potential recision of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program; high-skilled immigration; lesser skilled immigration; temporary agriculture guest worker; temporary non-agriculture guest worker; optional practical training program; size and administration of employment-based immigrant visa categories; size and administration of family-based immigrant visa categories; expansion of the use of the E-Verify system; employment verification; interior enforcement; family separations; family reunification; temporary suspension of entry of nationals from certain countries; increased vetting of visa applicants; unfair immigration related employment practices; travel issues; trusted traveler programs; biometric entry-exit; increasing the number of ICE officers, border patrol agents and Customs and Border Protection officers; aerial security enhancements; temporary DHS guidance for the I-9 employment verification process in the wake of COVID-19; Department of Labor Guidance on Labor Condition Application requirements in the wake of COVID-19; temporary Department of Labor procedural changes regarding the Permanent Labor Certification process in the wake of COVID-19; State Department policy accommodations regarding the use of interview waivers for H-2 nonimmigrant workers in the wake of COVID-19; temporary United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) procedures to provide flexibility with regard to filing deadlines, and temporary USCIS guidelines providing flexibility to wet-ink signatures on USCIS forms and documents; United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) funding shortfalls; Customs and Border Protection (CBP) funding shortfalls; clarification of the criteria that makes one eligible for a waiver from the entry restrictions for various employment-based immigrants and nonimmigrants; forthcoming regulatory proposals that would restrict applicant eligibility for the H-1B program; forthcoming regulatory proposals that would drastically change how prevailing wage levels are determined for the purposes of obtaining certain employment nonimmigrant and immigrant visas; forthcoming proposals that would significantly change how cap-subject H-1B petitions will be chosen in the future
Client expense: $20,000,000 · Firm income: Not reported
Government targets: Agriculture, Dept of (USDA), Army, Dept of (Corps of Engineers), Bureau of Citizenship & Immigration Services (BCIS), Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS), Bureau of Reclamation, Commerce, Dept of (DOC), Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ), Defense, Dept of (DOD), Education, Dept of, Energy, Dept of, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), Executive Office of the President (EOP), Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), Federal Communications Commission (FCC), Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, Federal Reserve System, Federal Trade Commission (FTC), General Services Administration (GSA), Government Accountability Office (GAO), HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Health & Human Services, Dept of (HHS), Homeland Security, Dept of (DHS), Housing & Urban Development, Dept of (HUD), Interior, Dept of (DOI), Internal Revenue Service (IRS), Justice, Dept of (DOJ), Labor, Dept of (DOL), Natl Economic Council (NEC), Natl Institute of Standards & Technology (NIST), Natl Labor Relations Board (NLRB), Natl Security Council (NSC), Natl Telecommunications & Information Administration (NTIA), Office of Management & Budget (OMB), Office of Science & Technology Policy (OSTP), Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), Patent & Trademark Office (PTO), Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC), SENATE, Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC), Small Business Administration (SBA), State, Dept of (DOS), Transportation Security Administration (TSA), Transportation, Dept of (DOT), Treasury, Dept of, U.S. Copyright Office, U.S. Customs & Border Protection, U.S. Trade Representative (USTR), White House Office
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