Over the past year, many extraordinary ability applicants and startup founders, among them, have felt that U.S. immigration adjudications have become more unpredictable. That perception is not unfounded. Using the only comparable public data available (FY 2025 Q1–Q3...
Last weekend, our Managing Attorney for Corporate Practice, Olga Prygoda, joined other leading immigration attorneys at the AILA Pacific Northwest Conference in Seattle. The session, “H-1B Fundamentals and Latest Developments 2025,” featured Olga alongside Felicia...
In 2025, USCIS started issuing more requests for evidence and notices of intent to deny, including for employment-based filings such as O-1, L-1, EB-1, and EB-2 national interest waiver petitions. Lawyers report RFEs that are both more frequent and sometimes broader...
A Gold Card program was created by Executive Order on Sept 19, 2025. It directs Commerce (with the U.S. Department of State and DHS) to set up a process that treats a qualifying “gift” to Commerce as evidence for an immigrant visa via an expedited process, “to the...
On September 19, 2025, President Trump signed an executive order launching the “Gold Card” – a new visa pathway framed as a fast-track option for permanent residence in the United States. While highly publicized, the program is already raising questions about...
If you are a high-achieving professional, scientist, researcher, or entrepreneur who has been weighing your permanent residency options, the current state of the U.S. visa bulletin is a clear signal: the window to act strategically is narrowing. Retrogression — the...
