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In response to an alarming spike in Covid cases, the Biden Administration announced a new country-wide travel ban for India beginning on Tuesday, May 4th.

The US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has completed this year’s initial H-1B lottery. Applicants who were selected in the lottery have been notified.

The Biden administration has allowed Presidential Proclamation 10052 (the visa ban enacted last June to prevent the issuance of certain working visas) to expire on March 31, 2021.

The registration period for this year’s H-1B lottery is now open and will run through 12:00 noon EST on March 25, 2021.

On February 24, 2021, President Biden revoked a Trump-era Presidential Proclamation that had banned the issuance of most new immigrant visas at US consulates abroad.

As a reminder to potential H-1B sponsors, this year’s H-1B registration process will run from noon EST on Tuesday, March 9 to noon EST on Thursday, March 25.

Earlier today the U.S. Citizenship & Immigration Services (USCIS) announced that the registration period for this year’s H-1B visa lottery will open on March 9th and run through March 25th.

On January 25, 2021, President Biden issued a new proclamation imposing travel restrictions on certain individuals who have been physically present in South Africa within 14 days of traveling to the US.

On January 20, 2021, his first day in office, President Biden issued five immigration-related executive orders and sent a sweeping immigration reform bill to Congress.

Last week, the Trump administration finalized and published a new rule which essentially dismantles the existing H-1B visa lottery, and replaces it with a new system which will allocate H-1B visas to the highest bidder.

In light of a new virulent strain of COVID-19, the United States is requiring all airline passengers coming from the United Kingdom to produce a negative COVID-19 test before entering the US.

A federal district court in California has set aside two new interim final rules recently promulgated by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the Department of Labor (DOL), both of which were aimed at making it more difficult to obtain an H-1B visa.

As the holiday season approaches, KM&M would like to remind all foreign nationals that international travel will be particularly challenging this year as a result of COVID-19 restrictions, embassy closures, and limitations on the issuance of certain immigrant and nonimmigrant visas.