As I am working from home on this day in late March, I am trying to predict what immigration attorneys and in-house counsel will need to do when they read this article, as events and rules are changing daily with respect to COVID-19. In February, we thought the worst thing to happen this year would be the new H-1B Cap Registration process. Little did we know that this pandemic would create uncertainty throughout the immigration landscape.

Hopefully we are on our way back to “normal.” If not, the time frames to the following items may most likely have been extended. Regardless, the best practices we’ve outlined below should be the same and should still require your attention in May:

  1. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and I-9 Forms