With the FY 2027 H-1B cap registration window opening on March 4, 2026, employers and candidates are navigating a landscape defined by the new Wage-Weighted Selection Process and the Beneficiary-Centric model (see our full alert). Reliance on “common knowledge” from previous years is [...]
The Department of Homeland Security has announced an inflation-based increase of the I-907 premium processing filing fee starting March 1, 2026. The most common $2,805 premium processing filing fee goes up to $2,965 with an average increase of approximately [...]
The new H-1B work visa “cap” season is set to begin on March 4 with significant changes to how USCIS will allocate the available visa numbers. Under the new final rule, the H-1B [...]
With the approaching H-1B cap filing season, one of the most common concerns we are hearing from both prospective H-1B employers and candidates is about the H-1B cap lottery and the fact that the random lottery does not provide a great chance of an H-1B application being selected for review. Selection Rate for the Prior [...]
The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service (“USCIS”) has just announced their final rule “Weighted Selection Process for Registrants and Petitioners Seeking to File Cap-Subject H-1B Petitions” which will become effective on February 27, 2026 and will apply to the upcoming [...]
Our office has seen a notable trend of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) issuing Notices of Intent to Revoke (NOIRs) for already approved H-1B petitions. This action frequently stems from post-approval compliance checks, particularly [...]
On September 19, 2025, the President issued a proclamation suspending the adjudication of H-1B petitions for individuals outside the United States and barring their entry into the U.S. unless the employer pays a $100,000 fee per [...]
Many of our readers recall that on December 18, 2024 USCIS released a final rule “Modernizing H-1B Requirements, Providing Flexibility in the F-1 Program, and Program Improvements Affecting Other Nonimmigrant Workers” (also see our analysis) which sought to “modernize” [...]
USCIS has announced that they have reached the H-1B cap limit for fiscal year 2026 (FY 2026) after the initial (and only) selection round. This means that, for the first time ever, they will not be conducting additional [...]
Many of our readers know that the H-1B visa is a critical and very common work visa used routinely by U.S. employers to hire skilled foreign nationals. The H-1B visa has an annual cap for first-time [...]
