In a continuation of Executive Actions on Immigration announced by President Barack Obama in recent months, the President has announced plans to ease the processing of L-1B applications for multi-national companies.
These measures will be a boost for companies in the Information Technology Industry who disproportionately rely on such visas to bring in its employees on short term assignments.
The USCIS on March 24, 2015 also issued a Policy Memorandum to provide guidance on the new “L-1B Adjudications Policy” and has requested public comments. The new regulations are expected to be implemented on August 31, 2015.
We will be providing further analysis in the coming weeks.
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