The U.S. State Department has just released the May 2019 Visa Bulletin which is the eighth Visa Bulletin for the FY2019 fiscal year. The headline in the upcoming month’s Visa Bulletin [...]
The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service (USCIS) announced that, as of Friday, April 5th, they have received a sufficient number of H-1B petitions to meet the annual H-1B cap for the 2020 fiscal year (FY2020). According to USCIS, they have received more [...]
USCIS has announced that they will allow premium processing for new FY2020 H-1B cap cases to be filed on April 1, 2019; however, this will be done in a two-phased approach. H-1B cap petitions requesting [...]
The U.S. State Department has just released the April 2019 Visa Bulletin which is the seventh Visa Bulletin for the FY2019 fiscal year. The headline in the upcoming month’s Visa Bulletin is the extremely slow forward movement [...]
USCIS has announced that starting March 12, 2019, they will accept requests for premium processing “upgrades” for all H-1B petitions. This includes upgrades for pending H-1B petitions and premium processing requests as part of new petitions. USCIS will announce soon whether they [...]
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 [...]
USCIS has announced that starting February 19, 2019, they will accept requests for premium processing “upgrades” for pending H-1B petitions which were filed on or before December 21, 2018. As a result, at this time, the only [...]
The U.S. State Department has just released the March 2019 Visa Bulletin which is the sixth Visa Bulletin for the FY2019 fiscal year. The headline in the upcoming month’s Visa Bulletin is the extremely slow forward movement [...]
USCIS has announced that it is making changes to Form I-539, Application to Extend/Change Nonimmigrant Status and that the new revised form will be the only version allowed starting March 11, 2019. Unfortunately, USCIS has also indicated that the form itself will only be available on USCIS website on March 11, 2019 - the same [...]
Many of our readers are aware of the University of Farmington story from earlier this year when federal agents arrested and charged a number of individuals described as brokers, recruiters and students with a number of violations, [...]
