Help us welcome Jeffrey Huang, our newest associate, to Alcorn Immigration Law! We’re thrilled to add another amazing immigration attorney to our team. Jeff is passionate about helping CEOs, investors, founders, and highly talented individuals live and work legally in the U.S. to build cutting-edge companies. An expert in immigration with significant experience in corporate…
Aiming to protect against U.S. intellectual property theft, the Trump administration is closely scrutinizing visa applications and shortening visa validity periods for some Chinese citizens. Under the new policy, which began last week, U.S. consular officers will use their discretion on a case-by-case basis to limit how long visas for Chinese students and working professionals…
As part of ongoing negotiations over NAFTA, the Trump administration is looking to reduce TN (Treaty National) visas for Canadians and Mexicans. A reduction may come from reducing the professions eligible for TN classification and possibly capping the number of TN visas issued each year. Currently, no limits exist on the number of TN visas…
“How can I get a green card faster than through my employer?” That’s the question we’ve been getting over and over recently, especially from Indian and Chinese software engineers in Silicon Valley. Last week, the Cato Institute, a public policy think tank, estimated that individuals from India face a whopping 151-year wait to transition from…
The Atlantic magazine interviewed Sophie Alcorn for her expertise as Silicon Valley’s only Board Certified Immigration and Nationality Law Specialist. The resulting article, “The Trump Administration Is Driving Away Immigrant Entrepreneurs” by Sonia Paul, was published last week. Alcorn discusses the pent-up demand for a startup visa and options for global entrepreneurs to come to the U.S.…
Although the end is near for entrepreneur parole under the International Entrepreneur Rule (IER), startup founders have alternatives to build amazing companies in the U.S. After nearly a year of threatening to terminate the IER program, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) made good on that threat last week: It published a proposal in the…
This green-cards-for-parents story is part of an ongoing series of posts I’m writing to showcase some of the Alcorn Immigration Law team’s client success stories.* To maintain confidentiality, the name of the client has been changed, and some details of the case may have been omitted or slightly altered. A few years after the Alcorn…
The National Venture Capital Association (NVCA) has filed a motion in federal court designed to determine whether the Trump administration is complying with a court order to implement the International Entrepreneur Rule. Last September, NVCA along with entrepreneurs and startups sued the federal government for illegally delaying implementation of the International Entrepreneur Rule (IER). The…
The volume of H-1B applications submitted to U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) and subject to the annual cap dropped for the second consecutive year under the Trump administration. Cap-subject H-1B filings have dropped nearly 20% since 2016. Each year since 2014, the number of cap-subject H-1B petitions submitted had steadily risen, reaching a high…
President Trump recently threatened to “close up the country” if Congress fails to fund a border wall between the U.S. and Mexico. “You can’t allow people to pour into our country the way they’re doing,” he said. By “close up the country,” it’s unclear whether Trump meant he would halt immigration entirely or refuse to…