H-1B applicants who are submitting H-1B extensions beyond the six-year H-1B limit with a current priority date but who have not filed I-485 adjustment of status may face [...]
Following the June 8, 2026 District Court decision striking down the $100,000 H-1B fee requirement in State of California v. Mullin (PDF copy), a major appellate development has occurred. On July 24, 2026, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit officially DENIED the federal government's emergency motion to stay the vacatur order pending [...]
USCIS has announced that they have reached the H-1B cap limit for fiscal year 2027 (FY 2027) after the initial (and only) selection round. This means that they will not be conducting additional lottery rounds of selection after [...]
The Department of Labor (DOL) will implement its annual update to the prevailing wage data used for employment-based immigration programs on July 1, 2026. Because the prevailing wage serves as a required minimum salary for several visa categories, these updates routinely result in higher wage floors across the country. Employers planning to file new or [...]
USCIS has officially completed the lottery, and selection notices are actively populating in employer and attorney myUSCIS accounts. This year marks a historic and highly anticipated shift: it is the very first selection process [...]
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 [...]
