For most of the year, US immigration policy has moved in a familiar rhythm: a proclamation, a lawsuit, a stay, an appeal. But over the last ten days of August, five separate storylines converged on the same narrow window — the next three weeks of September. Taken individually, each is significant. Taken together, they add up to the most consequential stretch for US-bound immigrants since the H-1B fee was first announced a year ago. Here is exactly where each of them stands as