Many of our readers are aware of the extraordinary demand for first-time H-1B "cap" registrations over the past few years and especially after USCIS introduced a pre-registration system during the 2021 fiscal year. Under the previous H-1B "cap" filing system, a petition would have to prepare and submit a full H-1B petition (with [...]
USCIS has just completed the second round of the H-1B cap selection lottery and notified the selected applicants. The August 2023 selection round was due to the fact that a (significant) number of H-1B cap registrations [...]
The U.S. State Department has released the September 2023 Visa Bulletin which is the twelfth and final Visa Bulletin for the fiscal year. The headline in the upcoming month’s Visa Bulletin is the fact that [...]
The U.S. State Department has just released the August 2023 Visa Bulletin which is the eleventh Visa Bulletin for the fiscal year. The headline in the upcoming month’s Visa Bulletin is cutoff date introduction for EB-1 Rest [...]
The I-140 EAD rule was introduced back in 2016 as part of a final rule entitled “Retention of EB–1, EB–2, and EB–3 Immigrant Workers and Program Improvements Affecting High-Skilled Nonimmigrant Workers” [commonly known as the “High-Skilled” Final Rule] and, as a result, USCIS amended its regulations to allow certain nonimmigrants with approved Form I-140 petitions [...]
USCIS has finally released details of the numbers of H-1B cap registrations for the upcoming fiscal year and the numbers are well above expectations in a number of ways. USCIS reported that out of a total of 780,888 [...]
Due to USCIS policy changes this content has been consolidated and updated - please check the consolidated and updated I-693 medical exam USCIS policy.
The U.S. State Department has just released the April 2023 Visa Bulletin which is the seventh Visa Bulletin for the fiscal year. The headline in the upcoming month’s Visa Bulletin is the retrogression in EB-2 preference categories and the cutoff date [...]
Today, March 23, 2023, is the end of the set of COVID-related flexibilities instituted at the beginning of the pandemic in March of 2020. The end of these flexibilities means that there are no longer additional grace periods and automatic deadline extensions [...]
The U.S. State Department has just released the March 2023 Visa Bulletin which is the sixth Visa Bulletin for the fiscal year. The headline in the upcoming month’s Visa Bulletin is the lack of any notable movement in the cutoff dates [...]
