Seth Law Associates

03/02/2021

The immigrant visa backlog is brutal. It will take decades for those highly skilled people from key countries such as India to obtain a green card and citizenship.

Without reform, some Indian professionals may have to wait up to 195 years to receive an employment-based green card in America.

09/04/2020

https://www.law360.com/articles/1306713/biden-immigration-plan-focuses-on-undoing-trump-actions?fbclid=IwAR1DtY21I6o6im_2oWb1RgZ3lAP0E67qEcNZlIN33YZVFCzPmIMMtr5g1s4

If he wins in November, Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden plans to focus his initial immigration policies on undoing the Trump administration's multitude of changes to the U.S. immigration system, likely by using the same executive action tools used to enact them.

03/31/2020

Payroll Protection Loans are available for COVID-19 disaster relief. This allows your small business to get 2.5 times your monthly payroll in forgivable loans from the Small Business Administration. This is available to small businesses as well as those on 1099. It appears if you maintain the payroll through June 30, 2020 the loans will be forgivable.

03/31/2020

For urgent disaster relief the 2.2 Trillion has an immediate $10,000 forgivable loan for small businesses. Application is available at

03/13/2020

Major win for our Tech Clients! This ruling has multiple levels pushing back the overreach by the USCIS.

A federal judge repudiated a major part of Donald Trump’s immigration policies by invalidating USCIS-imposed restrictions on H-1B visas.

02/07/2020

The myth of overpopulation is promoted by those who are anti immigrant.... well here is the reality.

In their book, "Empty Planet: The Shock of Global Population Decline," Darrell Bricker and John Ibbitson have startling facts for those who believe the population will continue to explode.

02/01/2020

This is big.... I think all my clients are owed $1000s.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/stuartanderson/2020/01/27/tech-companies-file-350-million-lawsuit-over-h-1b-visa-fees/amp/

01/28/2020

I have been saying this for decades... All the prosperity of Toronto is the prosperity lost by Pittsburgh Buffalo Cleveland and Detroit over the last 20 years due to restrictive immigration policy.

If there is a global war for tech talent, right now Canada is winning. And U.S. immigration policies are part of the reason.

01/27/2020

This administration?!

U.S. Attorney General William Barr and the Board of Immigration Appeals were berated by a federal appeals court for thwarting its orders and holding up a Mexican citizen’s request to seek a special visa for immigrants who were victims of a crime in the U.S.

01/15/2020

What we need more of...

Some of the most ambitious and talented people from India and China want to be Americans.

11/28/2019

An article from my undergraduate University paper highlights how we must not forget that one of the most American Holidays, Thanksgiving, is an Immigrant Holiday and is one and the same with our American values and our United States identity as a Nation of Immigrants. Happy Thanksgiving from the Seth Law Team!

As Nov. 22 comes around, families across the United States will be gathering around their dining room tables, weighted under the plethora of steaming dishes...