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Restoring H-1B Status Following H-1B Petition Denial Without Travel Abroad

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 [...]

By |2023-09-24T15:56:07-04:00May 3rd, 2018|Articles, H-1B, News, News Alert, USCIS|

Alert: FY2019 H-1B Cap Demand Very Strong; Random Lottery Just Completed

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 [...]

By |2018-04-12T15:24:16-04:00April 12th, 2018|Articles, H-1B, News, News Alert|

May 2018 Visa Bulletin – No Movement in EB-2 India/China; Very Weak Movement in EB-3 India/China

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 [...]

By |2018-04-11T11:16:27-04:00April 11th, 2018|Articles, EB-2, EB-3, News, News Alert, Visa Bulletin|

Alert: FY2019 H-1B Cap Reached on April 6th

The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service (USCIS) announced that, as of Friday, April 6th, they have received a sufficient number of H-1B petitions to meet the annual H-1B cap for the 2019 fiscal year (FY2019).    According to USCIS, they have received more than 20,000 H-1B petitions filed for beneficiaries with U.S. master’s degree and more [...]

By |2018-04-08T21:47:37-04:00April 8th, 2018|Articles, H-1B, News, News Alert|

USCIS Temporarily Suspends Premium Processing of H-1B CAP Petitions ONLY

USCIS has announced that effective April 2, 2018, they are temporarily suspending premium processing for H-1B cap petitions (only) until September 10, 2018.   Please note that this suspension applies only to H-1B cap petitions filed under the annual H-1B cap season.      All other H-1B petitions - such as extensions, transfers, amendments - continue [...]

By |2018-03-21T11:09:36-04:00March 21st, 2018|Articles, F-1, H-1B, News, News Alert|

April 2018 Visa Bulletin – EB-1 India and China Major Retrogression; EB China and EB-3 Advance Significantly

The U.S. State Department has just released the April 2018 Visa Bulletin which is the seventh Visa Bulletin for the FY2018 fiscal year. The headline in the upcoming month’s Visa Bulletin is major [...]

By |2018-03-13T09:18:46-04:00March 13th, 2018|AC21, Articles, I-485, News, News Alert, Visa Bulletin|

Last Call for H-1B Cap: Very Short and Busy H-1B Cap Filing Season Expected – April 2-6 (Five Business Days); H-1B Lottery Likely

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 [...]

By |2018-03-08T12:07:30-05:00March 8th, 2018|Articles, Employers, H-1B, News, News Alert|

H-4 EAD Update: Draft Program Rescission to be Announced in June 2018

February 2018 was a month which was highly anticipated by all following the H-4 EAD litigation which sought to challenge the H-4 EAD rule and, specifically, the anticipated introduction by USCIS of the proposed H-4 EAD rescission regulations.     USCIS has filed an update to the court in the Save Jobs USA litigation where they [...]

By |2018-03-01T18:24:08-05:00March 1st, 2018|Articles, H-4 EAD, News, News Alert|

USCIS Appears to Question Immediate F-1 CPT Validity for Second Degree Students

Our office has been seeing cases and reports that USCIS is changing their approach and starts to question the validity of F-1 CPT work authorization especially in cases where the F-1 foreign student has used more than 12 months of combined CPT and OPT at the same degree level.     Most often this issue is [...]

By |2019-02-06T20:36:19-05:00February 15th, 2018|Articles, Employers, F-1, H-1B, News, News Alert, Students|

March 2018 Visa Bulletin – Continued Very Slow Forward Movement Across Most Categories

The U.S. State Department has just released the March 2018 Visa Bulletin which is the sixth Visa Bulletin for the FY2018 fiscal year. The headline in the upcoming month’s Visa Bulletin is the continued very slow forward [...]

By |2018-02-12T14:37:26-05:00February 12th, 2018|AOS, Articles, EB-2, EB-3, News, News Alert, Visa Bulletin|

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