Alert: FY2019 H-1B Cap Demand Very Strong; Random Lottery Just Completed
Our office just learned that the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service (USCIS) has completed the intake and processing of all of the fiscal year (FY2019) H-1B cap petitions. According to USCIS, there were over 190,098 H-1B cap petitions filed during the April 2nd-6th filing period. This indicates that the number of H-1B cap filings this year is slightly lower than the [...]
May 2018 Visa Bulletin – No Movement in EB-2 India/China; Very Weak Movement in EB-3 India/China
The U.S. State Department has just released the May 2018 Visa Bulletin which is the eighth Visa Bulletin for the FY2018 fiscal year. The headline in the upcoming month’s Visa Bulletin is the lack of movement in EB-1 and EB-2 India/China and very weak forward movement in EB-3 India and China. […]
Alert: FY2019 H-1B Cap Reached on April 6th
The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service (USCIS) announced that, as of Friday, April 6th, they have received a sufficient number of H-1B petitions to meet the annual H-1B cap for the 2019 fiscal year (FY2019). According to USCIS, they have received more than 20,000 H-1B petitions filed for beneficiaries with U.S. master’s degree and more than the 65,000 general H-1B [...]
USCIS Temporarily Suspends Premium Processing of H-1B CAP Petitions ONLY
USCIS has announced that effective April 2, 2018, they are temporarily suspending premium processing for H-1B cap petitions (only) until September 10, 2018. Please note that this suspension applies only to H-1B cap petitions filed under the annual H-1B cap season. All other H-1B petitions - such as extensions, transfers, amendments - continue to be eligible for premium [...]
April 2018 Visa Bulletin – EB-1 India and China Major Retrogression; EB China and EB-3 Advance Significantly
The U.S. State Department has just released the April 2018 Visa Bulletin which is the seventh Visa Bulletin for the FY2018 fiscal year. The headline in the upcoming month’s Visa Bulletin is major retrogression and the introduction of a cutoff date for EB-1 India and China. On the positive side, we see significant forward movement for EB-3 India and EB-2 [...]
Last Call for H-1B Cap: Very Short and Busy H-1B Cap Filing Season Expected – April 2-6 (Five Business Days); H-1B Lottery Likely
As we are going into the peak of the H-1B cap season, our office receives many inquiries about the duration of the H-1B filing season this year or, in other words, when will the H-1B cap be reached? So far we have been able to compare demand with prior H-1B filing seasons and we knew that this would be a [...]