The $100,000 H-1B fee is not being collected. A federal court struck it down in June 2026, an appeals court refused to revive it in July, and as of August 2026 no employer has to pay it to file an H-1B petition — although the […]
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The H-1B lottery is no longer a coin toss. Since 27 February 2026, US Citizenship and Immigration Services has selected cap-subject registrations through a weighted process that gives higher-paid roles more entries in the pool than lower-paid ones, so two people competing for the same
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Citizenship by birth — jus soli, the right of soil — gives a child the nationality of the country where they are born, regardless of their parents’ nationality. It was once the norm across much of the world. Today, unconditional citizenship by birth survives in
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For eighteen months, US citizenship by birth was the most contested question in American immigration law. On 30 June 2026, the Supreme Court settled it. In Trump v. Barbara, the justices ruled 6–3 that a child born on American soil is a citizen at birth,
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Tax filing in the USA for international students catches many people by surprise, because it applies even in a year when you earned nothing at all. Everyone in F, J or M status has at least one form to send the Internal Revenue Service (IRS),
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