Immigration Update with Lin Walker

If you are a foreign national who will be traveling soon this episode can help you from committing an easy to make mistake that can have serious long-term consequences.

This week we have a short warning and a powerful solution to a problem that can sneak up on you from behind.

Time for another LIGHTNING ROUND, featuring Meyner associate Kristen Sisko and Meyner partner Lin Walker

The lightning round is a rapid fire Q&A where we answer YOUR questions sent to us via LinkedIn private message.

This week Lin and Kristen tackle questions about which vaccines will be acceptable for entry into the United States, the state of the U.S./Canada border, and several questions related to H-1B Cap petitions.

What is an O1-B visa? Who can get one? And what are the requirements?

In this podcast we are going to explain the different classifications of artists eligible for an O-1B visa and the kind of evidence needed.

If you are foreign national artist looking to work in the United States you are definitely going to want to listen to this weeks episode.

This week we have another Lightning Round Featuring Meyner Immigration Associate Kristen Sisko and Meyner immigration partner Lin Walker.

The lightning round is a rapid fire Q&A we do here on the podcast every two weeks about hot topics affecting immigration professionals.

Today Kristen and Lin dig into the information you NEED to know about the recent rescinding of the COVID-19 travel bans.

In this episode we talk about the extent of the processing delays at USCIS, (you’ll be astonished if you haven’t already been experiencing them yourself) some reasons WHY this is happening and finally, some things you can do to help facilitate your petitions.

This week we have a break from our usual format, Meyner and Landis immigration associate Kristen Cisco has complied a rapid fire Q & A of the 5 most important things you need to know when considering filing an NIE.

She’s joined by immigration partner Lin Walker.

When the first round of COVID-19 related travel restrictions were issued in February 2020, many foreign nationals, employers and immigration professionals were cautiously optimistic that these restrictions would be short-lived.

More than eighteen exhaustive months later, this could not be further from the truth. U.S. Embassies and Consulates throughout the world continue to operate with skeletal staff, offering nonimmigrant visa appointments on an emergency-basis only and inconsistently approving requests for national interest exceptions (NIEs) to the COVID-19 related travel restrictions.

Our podcast this week aims to provide an update regarding the NIE process and guidance for foreign nationals who travel abroad.

USCIS recently issued two policy changes regarding Form I-693, Report for Medical Examination or Vaccine Record which directly impacts foreign nationals who have or will be applying for lawful permanent resident status.

The goal of the podcast this week is to provide foreign nationals and their employers with important issues to consider when moving.

It can be an unwelcome surprise to foreign nationals and their employers when they realize the impact that moving, even within the same State, can have on their immigration status.

This week, we offer a repost of a useful podcast from several months ago...

If you were lucky enough to have your H-1B Cap Registration selected, now that the second round is happeneing, what are the next steps? Well, there is still some work to do!

In this week's podcast we will examine and summarize what the H-1B Registration Selection notice states and the next steps for those whose registrations were selected during the fiscal year 2022 lottery.