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USCIS Releases Detailed Guidance on $100,000 H-1B Fee Under Presidential Proclamation On October 20, 2025, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) released new guidance regarding the September 19, 2025 Presidential Proclamation introducing a $100,000 fee for certain H-1B petitions. This update to the USCIS.gov website provides the most comprehensive information to date. Below is a

Visa Bulletin Update: December 2025 — Key Changes from November 2025 The U.S. Department of State has released the December 2025 Visa Bulletin. Compared with November 2025, we see modest but meaningful forward movement in several family-sponsored categories, broader advancement across multiple employment-based categories (especially for China and India), the reopening of the Religious Worker (SR) category,

South African Citizenship Reinstatement: What the Constitutional Court Ruling Means A recent ruling by the Constitutional Court of South Africa has important consequences for South Africans who believed they lost their citizenship after acquiring citizenship of another country. The Constitutional Court Ruling The Court declared that Section 6(1)(a) of the South African Citizenship Act (Act