July 2019 Visa Bulletin – FB-2A is Current Allowing I-485 Filings; EB China Advances Well While EB India Unchanged
The U.S. State Department has just released the July 2019 Visa Bulletin which is the tenth Visa Bulletin for the FY2019 fiscal year. The headline in the upcoming month’s Visa Bulletin is the fact that FB-2A is “Current” allowing I-485 filings. Also, EB-2 and EB-3 China advance by several months. No significant movement for EB India. Second Update (06/26/2019): After [...]
How to Handle Specialty Occupation H-1B RFEs?
Our readers and clients who have been involved in the H-1B program and especially over the last 12+ months must have experienced or at least heard about the "specialty occupation" requests for evidence (RFE) which have been and continue to be issued by USCIS. Our office has been receiving and handling numerous such RFEs and we have been working [...]
How to Handle Wage Level I H-1B RFEs?
Our readers and clients who have been involved in the H-1B program over the last couple of years (and especially those participating in the H-1B cap filing season) must have experienced or at least heard about the Wage Level I requests for evidence (RFE) which have been and continue to be issued by USCIS. Our office has received numerous [...]
H-1B Cap Data Entry and Receipting Completed
Many of our readers are aware that as of April 5, 2019, USCIS had received a sufficient number of H-1B cap-subject petitions to fill the annual fiscal year (FY) 2020 H-1B quota (total of 201,000 cap applications). USCIS has just announced that as of May 17, 2019 they have completed the intake process and the issuance of receipt notices for [...]
Nationals of Israel Eligible for E-2 Treaty Investor Visas as of May 1, 2019
Beginning May 1, 2019, Israel has been added as an E visa treaty country which makes its nationals eligible to obtain the E-2 treaty investor visa classification. Spouses and unmarried children under 21 years of age of such treaty investor and employees are also eligible for the E-2 classification. About the E-2 Treaty Investor Visa The E-2 nonimmigrant classification allows [...]
June 2019 Visa Bulletin – EB-1 India Retrogression; Slow Movement Elsewhere
The U.S. State Department has just released the June 2019 Visa Bulletin which is the ninth Visa Bulletin for the FY2019 fiscal year. The headline in the upcoming month’s Visa Bulletin is significant retrogression in EB-1 India and the extremely slow forward movement in almost all employment-based categories. EB-1 China remains unchanged and EB-3 India remains more advanced than EB-2 India with [...]