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, [...]
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service (“USCIS”) has finalized and published the final rule which seeks to amend in substantial ways the way the annual H-1B “cap” work visa applications and lottery are being filed and how the U.S. master’s degree applications are being allocated under the H-1B cap lottery. It is important to note that the [...]
USCIS has announced that starting January 29, 2019, they will accept requests for premium processing "upgrades" for pending H-1B cap cases which were filed in April 2018. This reinstatement of premium processing applies only to "regular" and "master's" cap cases which are still pending at this time. Premium processing remains available for H-1B extensions with [...]
