Worldwide: Work Visas

As H-2B visa workers increasingly extend their status and transfer between seasonal employers, questions arise about their ability to travel domestically and internationally between work periods. This guidance explores the permissible travel options for H-2B workers during seasonal transitions and highlights critical compliance considerations that employers must understand to avoid jeopardizing their workers' visa status.

H-1B workers who lose their jobs and file to change status to B-1/B-2 visitor status are facing increased scrutiny from USCIS, with rising denials challenging what was once a widely accepted strategy. Recent policy shifts have recharacterized job searching as an impermissible primary purpose for visitor status, creating new risks for terminated workers and their prospective employers.

Pabian Law's April 2026 quarterly update examines critical developments in U.S. immigration law for hospitality employers, including H-1B visa cap changes, accelerated EB-3 green card processing timelines...

Japan has implemented two major immigration changes in 2026 that affect both employers and foreign nationals. First, as of March 9, 2026, stricter rules now apply...

The Department of Labor (DOL) has published a notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) to revise how prevailing wage levels are calculated for the H-1B, H-1B1, E-3, and PERM employment based non-immigrant...

On March 31, 2026, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced that it has received enough electronic registrations to meet the H-1B numerical cap for fiscal year 2027 (FY 2027), including the advanced degree exemption (commonly known as the “master’s cap”). This marks the conclusion of the initial H-1B registration and selection period — the first conducted under USCIS’s new wage-level-weighted process favoring higher offered compensation.

The countdown to the FIFA World Cup 2026™ has officially begun, and with it comes a once-in-a-generation moment for the United States.

On March 26, 2026, the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) that would substantially revise the methodology for calculating...

On March 27, 2026, the U.S. Deptartment of Labor (DOL) published its long-awaited proposed rule to increase prevailing wages ("OEWS"), available on its Office of Foreign Labor Certification (OFLC) website...