Top 10 Immigration Headlines from All Regions The November Visa Bulletin—issued by the U.S. Department of State—continues a positive trend started in October, which made visas available for individuals with older priority dates in the Employment-Based Third Preference (EB-3) category following five months of visa unavailability and priority date retrogression. We remind sponsors that it is important to keep a record on eachsponsored migrant's file as to which version of the sponsorguidance was in use at the time the certificate of sponsorship(CoS) was assigned and we also recommend that sponsors keep copiesof the current and all previous versions of the sponsorguidance. Fall is Diversity Visa Lottery Registration time! It is that time of the year again when individuals from most countries of the world can apply to be selected in the Diversity Immigrant Visa Lottery Program (“DV Lottery”). The Department of Homeland Security (DHS), US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), issued an interim rule revising the list of documents acceptable for the employment eligibility verification process. The following article provides guidance as to when foreign licensed attorneys are permitted to represent clients before the Department of Homeland Security (hereafter referred to as “DHS”). As part of its effort to deter fraud in the immigration process, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) is conducting random unannounced site visits at employers of H-1B and L-1 workers. A raft of new measures are due to be implemented by the UK Border Agency designed to ensure that British workers have every possible opportunity to fill vacancies before employers are permitted to recruit migrant workers. On October 9, 2009, the Federal Government proposed major changes to regulations pertaining to Canada’s Temporary Foreign Worker Program (the Program). The legal regime applicable to the entry and exit of foreign citizens into and out of national territory is disciplined, in Portugal, by Law No. 23/2007. E-Verify is an Internet-based system operated by the Departmentof Homeland Security's U.S. Citizenship and ImmigrationServices (DHS) in partnership with the Social SecurityAdministration (SSA) that allows participating employers to verify electronically the identity and employment eligibility of their newly hired employees, regardless of citizenship. | 
