Your H-1B Renewal Just Got $4,000 More Expensive — But Only at “50-50” Companies Your H-1B Renewal Just Got $4,000 More Expensive — But Only at “50-50” Companies For most H-1B and L-1 workers in the United States, the rule that takes effect on 9 September 2026 will cost nothing at all. For a much … Read more
Ireland’s Expired IRP Card Travel Concession Ends on 31 August — And It’s Your Return Date That Decides It If you are a non-EEA resident in Ireland waiting on an IRP card renewal and you have a flight booked in the next few weeks, the important date is not the day you leave. It is … Read more
USCIS Is Replacing the I-765 and I-539 on September 15 — and This Is the Worst Year to File the Wrong Edition New Form I-765 Edition USCIS published a short notice yesterday that will not make many headlines and will cost some people their work authorisation. On 15 September 2026, two of the most-filed forms … Read more
USCIS Can Now Switch Off Paper Filing — 22 Forms Are Already Eligible, and Most Immigration Lawyers Still File on Paper Most of the coverage of this week’s USCIS rule leads with the same reassurance: nothing changes yet, no form has to be filed online today. That is technically true and practically misleading. The rule … Read more
Two Different Salary Floors Are Circulating for Australia’s 2026 Skilled Visas — and Lodging Against the Wrong One Simply Fails If you are being sponsored into Australia this year, there is one number your whole application rests on — the minimum salary your employer has to guarantee you. Search for it today and you will … Read more
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