Porter Wright Morris & Arthur LLP (LexBlog India)

Special thanks to summer associate Sara Schiavone for her work on this blog post. Human resource professionals who are managing the immigration processing for Indian nonimmigrant employees should be aware of the increased processing times for the visa application at consulates in India. The extraordinary increase in routine processing for nonimmigrant visas requires significantly more...

The State Department released the January 2013 Visa Bulletin last week. Among the items of interest was the disappointing news that the visa cut-off date for the EB-2 category for India remains September 1, 2004, for the fourth straight month since the new fiscal year began in October. This means that cases with a priority...

On August 16, 2012, in a Complaint filed in the U.S. District Court in the Northern District of California, the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) charged Oracle Corporation with violating the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (“FCPA”).  The Complaint alleges that, from 2005 to 2007, employees of an Indian subsidiary of Redwood Shores, a California-based enterprise systems...

In an article published by Pharma Law Weekly dated October 31, 2006, Nano Interface Technology, Inc. (NITI) announced that it is considering opening a new factory in India to manufacture orthopedic and dental implants coated with nano-material. The Indian market for medical implants is one of the largest in the world, and NITI claims a...