DHS Wants to End the H-1B 60-Day Grace Period — What Workers Should Do While the Rule Sits at the White House For nine years, a laid-off H-1B worker has had sixty days. Sixty days to find another sponsor, file a transfer, switch to a dependent status, or pack up on their own terms. On … Read more
The $100,000 Fee Was Blocked. The Rule That Follows It Is Already Written. If you have been following the $100,000 H-1B fee, you have been watching the wrong document for the past four months. The fee is blocked and in litigation. Meanwhile, a second measure from the same source is sitting quietly at the Department … Read more
September 2026 Visa Bulletin: The Last One of the Fiscal Year — and the State Department Has Already Told Us Which Way It Leans The September Visa Bulletin is the one that matters most, and it is the one almost nobody reads properly. It closes Fiscal Year 2026. Whatever it says on employment-based categories decides … Read more
Canada Quietly Rewrote One of Its Easiest Work Permits — and the Change Applies to Files Already in the Queue If your Canadian work permit application is sitting with IRCC right now under the C20 category, the rules it will be judged against are not the rules it was filed under. That is the part … Read more
The Next H-2B Season Starts on 1 October — Here’s How the Jobs Are Really Allocated, and Who Is Allowed to Take Them H-2B Visa Jobs 2027 If you are looking at American seasonal work — hotels, resorts, landscaping, food service, construction crews — the next hiring window opens on 1 October 2026. That is … Read more
The $100,000 H-1B Fee Is On Hold Right Now — Here’s What That Actually Changes for Foreign Workers If you have been watching US work-visa news with a knot in your stomach for the past ten months, here is the short version: the H-1B $100,000 fee is not being collected today. A federal appeals court … Read more
Low-Wage LMIA 2026: Where Canada Will Still Process Your Job Offer — and Where It Won’t Canada refuses to process low-wage work permit applications in cities where local unemployment is too high, and that list was redrawn on July 10, 2026. Eight cities came off it. Four went on. Twenty-six remain frozen until at least … Read more
The H-1B FY 2027 Cap Is Full and There Is No Second Lottery — Here’s What Registrants Can Do Now H-1B Cap FY If your registration still says “Submitted” and you have been quietly hoping for a second draw, stop waiting. It is not coming. On 17 July 2026, US Citizenship and Immigration Services announced … Read more
The H-1B $100,000 Fee Is Blocked — Why That Still Doesn’t Open a Door This Year The $100,000 charge that froze American hiring of foreign professionals for ten months is, for now, off the books. A federal appeals court refused on 24 July 2026 to revive it while the government appeals, which means US Citizenship … Read more
The UK’s New Immigration Rules Take Effect This Week — Here’s What Actually Changes You have probably seen the headlines: a sweeping overhaul, 42 sections rewritten, tighter rules across work, study and family visas. Some of that is technically true and most of it is misleading. The Home Office’s own paperwork tells a much quieter … Read more