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Re: Weighted Selection Process for Registrants and Petitioners Seeking to File Cap-Subject H-1B Petitions, CIS No. 2820-25; DHS Docket No. USCIS-2025-0040

Topics: H-1B Nonimmigrant Visa Progam

Re: Establishing a Fixed Time Period of Admission and an Extension of Stay Procedure for Nonimmigrant Academic Students, Exchange Visitors, and Representatives of Foreign Information Media, Docket No. ICEB-2025-0001

RE: DHS Docket No. USCIS-2024-0006; A.G. Order No. 6053-2024: Securing the Border Final Rule

Topics: Biden Border Crisis

RE: DHS Docket No. USCIS-2024-0006: Securing the Border

Topics: Biden Border Crisis, Asylum

RE: DHS Docket No. USCIS-2024-0005: Application of Certain Mandatory Bars in Fear Screenings

Topics: Biden Border Crisis

RE: Labor Certification for Permanent Employment of Foreign Workers in the United States; Modernizing Schedule A To Include Consideration of Additional Occupations in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) and Non-STEM Occupations; DOL D

Topics: Wages, Jobs, and Poverty

RE: Modernizing H-1B Requirements, Providing Flexibility in the F-1 Program, and Program Improvements Affecting Other Nonimmigrant Workers, RIN 1615-AC70, DHS Docket No. USCIS–2023–0005.

Topics: Foreign Students, H-1B Nonimmigrant Visa Progam

RE: Unaccompanied Children Program Foundational Rule, RIN 0970-AC93, Document Number: 2023-21168.

Topics: Influx of Unaccompanied Minors

RE: Modernizing H-2 Program Requirements, Oversight, and Worker Protections; DHS Docket No. USCIS–2023–0012; RIN: 1615-AC76

Topics: H-2A Nonimmigrant Visa Program, H-2B Nonimmigrant Visa Progam

RE: Appellate Procedures and Decision Finality in Immigration Proceedings; Administrative Closure (Department of Justice, RIN 1125-AB18, EOIR Docket No. 021-0410).