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USCIS and FBI Announce Name Check Backlog Eliminated
 June 23, 2009   Link
By Matt Gunn

USCIS Acting Deputy Director Michael Aytes announced yesterday that CIS and the FBI have recently achieved all its milestones in the completion of FBI name checks.  As you might remember a few years ago permanent residence cases had been delayed by months if not years waiting for these security checks to be completed.  As an interim measure the CIS had previously begun adjudicating permanent residence cases at 180 days. 
USCIS Resumes I-140 Premium Processing
 June 22, 2009   Link
By Matt Gunn

USCIS announced today that it will resume premium processing for almost all employment-based immigrant petition cases on June 29, 2009.  In recent years premium processing of I-140 cases has been limited to special select circumstances when a foreign national's "max out" date was imminent.
Dealing with a Chinese Workforce – The “Soft Layoff”
 June 20, 2009   Link
By Joseph J. Dehner

A US company starts a Chinese manufacturing subsidiary and quickly takes on 50 or more employees. Then growth turns to decline. How to cut back the workforce in China? This must be handled very differently than in the US.
China’s Labor Law Begins to Reveal its Meaning: How the Code is clarified on a consistent basis
 June 19, 2009   Link






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