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The Immigration Law Group at Epstein Becker Green released a Special Immigration Alert that will be of interest to our readers.

Topics include:

1. President Trump Issues Revised Executive Order on Travel
2. USCIS Suspends Premium Processing for H-1B Petitions Starting April 3, 2017: All H-1B Petitions, Including H-1B Cap Petitions, Are Affected!
3. Use of New Form I-9 Is Now Mandatory
4. IRS Announces That Delinquent Taxpayers Face Revocation/Denial of U.S. Passports
5. DHS Issues Two New Memos on Enforcement/Border Security

Read the full alert here.

Epstein Becker Green colleagues Robert S. Groban, Jr. and Matthew S. Groban provide an update to the health care industry in the Immigration Alert: September 2014, including an update on the Sixth Circuit Expanding the Liability of Health Care Employers for Sponsorship Costs.

Based on the Kutty decision, health care employers can expect more aggressive enforcement activity in connection with their employment of foreign nationals (“FNs”) generally and foreign medical professionals sponsored for H-1B classification and J-1 waivers of the two-year foreign ...

By Robert S. Groban, Jr. and Matthew S. Groban

On March 24, 2014, the USCIS Ombudsman reported that the agency has been improperly denying employment authorization to the dependents of J-1 doctors who are participating in the Conrad 30 program. Normally, foreign physicians who pursue medical training in the United States in J-1 status must leave the country and return home for at least two years when they finish their residency programs. The Conrad 30 program waives this two-year foreign residence requirement and allows those J-1 physicians selected for the program to change their ...

Robert Groban and the Immigration Law Group of Epstein Becker Green recently issued an alert that will be of interest to employers. Following are the main topic headings:

• H-1B Nonimmigrant Season Opens on April 1, 2014, for Fiscal Year 2015
• H-1B Petition Amendments May Be Required Due to Changed Job Location
• DOL's Administrative Review Board Applies "Bona Fide Termination" Rule to E-3 Worker
• Infosys Pays Record $34 Million in Settlement
• New York Federal District Court Awards Undocumented Immigrants FLSA Damages
• California Passes "Immigrant Friendly" Legislation
• OCAHO Provides ...

We recommend this recent client alert on Epstein Becker Green's website: "Special Immigration Alert: The Immigration Ripple Effect of a Government Shutdown," by Robert Groban, Jr., Pierre Georges Bonnefil, Patrick Brady, Jang Im, and Greta Ravitsky, our colleagues at Epstein Becker Green.

Following is an excerpt:

The looming prospect of a Government shutdown will have a significant impact on the immigration process. Activities of the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) will be largely unaffected because it is funded by the fees it collects. The shutdown ...

By: Robert S. Groban, Jr.

Excerpt from EBG April 2013 Immigration Alert:

On March 8, 2013, the USCIS published a notice in the Federal Register announcing that it had recently revised the Employment Eligibility Verification form (“Form I-9”), and that employers must start using this new form by May 7, 2013.  Employers using prior versions of the Form I-9 on or after May 8, 2013, will violate the law and be subject to worksite enforcement fines and other penalties.

Click here to read the full Immigration Alert.

RECENT PRESS COVERAGE

Rock Center with Brian Williams recently featured a story about hospitals that were "overwhelmed by ‘permanent residents.’" The focus of the piece was individuals whose need for acute care in a hospital had long since been addressed, but who have no insurance or other way to pay for the long-term care they do need, in a nursing home or rehabilitation facility, or in their own home. Without a safe place to which discharge is available for these patients, hospitals must continue to provide for their care.

 One of the individuals profiled by the piece, and many ...