Our office has obtained an updated set of expected cutoff date movements over the next several months as we end fiscal year 2018 on September 30, 2018 and enter the fiscal year 2019. [...]
The U.S. State Department has just released the September 2018 Visa Bulletin which is the last Visa Bulletin for the FY2018 fiscal year. The headline in the upcoming month’s Visa Bulletin is the cutoff [...]
The U.S. State Department has just released the July 2018 Visa Bulletin which is the tenth Visa Bulletin for the FY2018 fiscal year. The headline in the upcoming month’s Visa Bulletin is the significant retrogression in EB-3 China [...]
Update (May 3, 2019): The Policy Memorandum has been blocked by a preliminary injunction. In a Policy Memorandum dated May 10, 2018 and effective as of August 9, 2018, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service (USCIS) is changing the way it treats non-immigrants who are in the U.S. on F, J and M status and, specifically, [...]
Many of our readers are aware that as of April 6, 2018, USCIS had received a sufficient number of H-1B cap-subject petitions to fill the annual H-1B quota (total of 190,000 cap applications). As USCIS has been issuing receipt notices for the H-1B cap cases which are being selected for processing, we wanted to provide [...]
The U.S. State Department has just released the June 2018 Visa Bulletin which is the ninth Visa Bulletin for the FY2018 fiscal year. The headline in the upcoming month’s Visa Bulletin is the lack of [...]
It is not a secret that the last several month have brought a great increase in the rate of RFEs and denials on H-1B petitions – mainly focusing on the specialty occupation and right to control issues. As a result, there has been a corresponding increase in the rate of denials and in a number [...]
Many USCIS immigration benefits require the collection of biometrics information from the applicant at an USCIS Application Support Center (ASC). The collection of biometrics is a routine part of the application process and in most cases involves taking digital fingerprints, photo and signature. Which Types of Applications Require Biometrics? At this time biometrics are generally [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
