Employ American Workers Act Implementation Details Out:

March 27, 2009: Employ American Workers Act (EAWA) is now in full implementation and with an immediate impact affecting all H-1B US employers in the following way:

All H-1B employers, including all public independent school districts and private chartered school systems, are kindly reminded of the following important latest developments concerning the filing of H-1B petitions in your planned hiring of foreign national workers for the next school year or proposed employment to start on or after Oct. 1, 2009, under the 2010 Fiscal Year's H-1B annual numeric quota restrictions.  

U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) is the unified border agency within the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) charged with the management, control and protection of our nation's borders at and between the official ports of entry.  

If you have a pending application for adjustment of status (Form I-485 or “green card”) and are experiencing substantial delays due to the backlog in FBI name check result to clear your way with the USCIS adjudication officers, you know what we are talking about and we, too, know how devastating such delays can be in your life.  Some of the clients we helped successfully in the past had cases pending with FBI for over 3 years before they came to our office.