Share this page
Email Updates
Subscribe to Feeds
The threat level in the airline sector is High or Orange. Read more.
Laws & Regulations
Laws and regulations listed below include links from this Web site and from Department of Homeland Security component agency Web sites. More immigration laws can be found at U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services.
The Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands Transition to U.S. Immigration Law. U.S. immigration law will be extended to the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, a chain of 14 Pacific islands located near Guam. The transition period begins on November 28, 2009.
Optional Practical Training Interim Final Rule. An interim final rule extending the period of Optional Practical Training (OPT) from 12 to 29 months for qualified F-1 non-immigrant students with a degree in science, technology, engineering, or mathematics who are employed by businesses enrolled in the e-Verify program.
H-2A Temporary Agricultural Worker Program Proposed Changes. The proposed changes to the rule reduce current limitations and certain delays faced by U.S.employers and relax current limitations on employers’ ability to petition for multiple, unnamed agricultural workers.
This page was last reviewed/modified on July 9, 2009.