What changes for extraordinary-ability visas and green cards — O-1A/O-1B and EB-1A: USCIS policy and Policy Manual updates, rules and fees, premium processing and processing times, EB-1 Visa Bulletin moves, AAO and court decisions, and RFE or denial trends that immigration lawyers confirm.
USCIS will let employment-based applicants use the Dates for Filing chart for October 2026, after directing the Final Action Dates chart from May through September. For EB-1, that chart is current for all areas except China and India, which have a July 1, 2024 cutoff.
The State Department published the October 2026 Visa Bulletin two days before fiscal year end. EB-1 India advances to February 1, 2023, China stays at July 1, 2023, and all other countries remain current; attorneys called the bulletin disappointing overall and expect spillover numbers to be clearer by November.
Also in headlinefocusnews.com, usavisalaw.com, eb1aexperts.com, day1cpt.orgSenator Tommy Tuberville and Representative Barry Moore introduced the Americans First Immigration Act (S. 5485, H.R. 8586). It would eliminate EB-1 through EB-5 and replace them with a points-based system capped at 192,000 visas a year, scored on salary, education, age and English proficiency.
Also in vieralawfirm.comStreams that already watch this field. Follow one as it is — it costs nothing extra.
Roles building cryptography and privacy technology: applied cryptographers, ZK and FHE engineers, security engineers working on protocols.
Senior Rust roles at companies that run Rust in production — infrastructure, networking, crypto and developer tools.
Machine learning, research and inference engineering roles at AI labs and AI-heavy companies that pay $300,000 a year or more.