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Congratulations! After months or years of paperwork, waiting, and uncertainty, you have finally secured lawful permanent resident (LPR) status. But the journey does not end there. Becoming a lawful permanent resident comes with important rights, responsibilities, and deadlines that every new green card holder should understand. Below, we answer the questions we hear most often...

A Department of Homeland Security final rule that would eliminate “Duration of Status” (D/S) for F-1 students (also J-1 visa holders) has now cleared the Office of Management and Budget (OMB). The OMB cleared the rule (RIN: 1653-AA95) on June 17, 2026, the last procedural step before publication in the Federal Register. The rule is...

Last month USCIS issued a controversial memo suggesting that Adjustment of Status was a form of extraordinary relief and that individuals wanting to pursue a green card should leave the US to Consular Process.  As you can imagine this memo sparked fear and chaos throughout the immigration community and many Attorneys started to talk about...

On June 22, 2026, the Department of Homeland Security published a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking that would dramatically increase the cost of applying for naturalization and eliminate the financial assistance options that have long helped lower-income applicants pursue citizenship. What Is Being Proposed? Under the proposal, the filing fee for Form N-400, Application for Naturalization,...

For employers sponsoring their employees for a green card, demonstrating ability to pay the offered wage has always been one of the requirements.  However, although we typically address this with our clients at the outset, during the PERM stage, actually demonstrating the ability to pay does not usually come into play until the I-140 stage. ...

In most commercial real estate transactions, buyers understandably tend to focus on the economic terms – the purchase price, debt structure, and closing date. Those terms matter, but they are only part of the deal. Once a contract is signed, the due diligence period is the buyer’s opportunity to confirm whether the property can actually...

In today’s market, fund managers regularly find themselves needing additional capital and thinking they should send a capital call notice to existing investors. This sounds simple, and sometimes this is the right approach, but often what the fund manager wants is not a capital call at all and is actually a new offering. The consequences...

In a long-awaited decision, a federal judge has declared the Trump administration’s attempt to impose a $100k fee on certain H-1B workers to be unlawful. Last September, the immigration community was shell-shocked when the Trump administration announced a $100k fee applicable to certain H-1B workers. Practitioners, employers, and employees initially scrambled to understand what the...