All referenced Immigrant Visas for fiscal year 2024 have been issued so employers may experience delays in visa issuance for these categories until the new fiscal year begins on October 1, 2024.

In this fortnight’s edition of the KHQ Workplace Watch we cover a range of hot topics – including the Fair Work Commission’s proceedings aimed at developing the first award ‘working from home’ term.

WR Immigration’s September global immigration updates include the latest developments on the UK’s eVisas to replace BRP cards, EU’s new Entry/Exit System, Italy’s Updated Immigration Violation Penalties, and much more!

Recent announcements that visa number limits have been reached for almost all employment-based categories have left many foreign nationals and their supporters puzzled, asking, “What does this mean for my clients, customers, colleagues, or me?”

On August 23, Decree 32 of the Ministry of Health was published, which declared a health alert throughout the country due to the public health emergency resulting from the monkeypox outbreak.

In light of this alert, employers are required to offer teleworking or remote work to the following persons, to the extent that the nature of their duties allows it:

The fact that the annual limit has been reached means that those posts cannot request additional numbers which may have been required to process “comeback” cases from previous months.

In this edition, find the latest news on a Second H-1B Lottery, the Visa Bulletin, STEM Degrees added to Program List, and much more!