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August 2016 Visa Bulletin – EB-1 India/China and EB-2 ROW Cutoff Dates Introduced

The U.S. State Department has just released the August 2016 Visa Bulletin which is the eleventh Visa Bulletin for the FY2016 fiscal year. The headline in the upcoming month’s Visa Bulletin is introduction of a cutoff date for EB-1 [...]

By |2017-05-20T21:47:05-04:00July 12th, 2016|Articles, I-485, News, News Alert, Visa Bulletin|

July 2016 Visa Bulletin – Very Minor Forward Movement for Few Categories

The U.S. State Department has just released the July 2016 Visa Bulletin which is the tenth Visa Bulletin for the FY2016 fiscal year. The headline in the upcoming month’s Visa Bulletin is the lack of much movement across the employment-based [...]

By |2017-05-20T21:47:05-04:00June 9th, 2016|Articles, EB-2, EB-3, I-485, News, News Alert, Visa Bulletin|

Visa Bulletin Predictions and Updates from Charles Oppenheim (May 18, 2016)

Our office just came back from a discussion session here in Washington, DC with Charles Oppenheim.  Mr. Oppenheim is the Chief of the Visa Control and Reporting Division at the U.S. Department of State.  For many, he is simply known as the person responsible for the monthly and annual visa number allocations for family- and [...]

By |2017-05-20T21:47:05-04:00May 18th, 2016|Articles, News Alert, Visa Bulletin|

Lawsuit Challenging Visa Bulletin Revision Dismissed

In an order dated May 16, 2016, the U.S District Court for the Western District of Washington has dismissed the lawsuit challenging the October 2015 Visa Bulletin revisions, or the so-called “visagate.”    According to the court, the visa bulletin, mainly because it had not [...]

By |2017-05-20T21:47:05-04:00May 17th, 2016|Articles, EB-2, I-485, News, News Alert, Visa Bulletin|

USCIS Publishes Rule Seeking to Raise Filing Fees

The Department of Homeland Security has just released a proposed rule seeking to amend (increase) most of the Citizenship and Immigration (USCIS) application filing fees. The weighted average of the increase is 21 percent and USCIS is adding one new fee.  The [...]

By |2017-05-20T21:47:05-04:00May 11th, 2016|Articles, Employers, Fees, H-1B, News, News Alert, USCIS|

June 2016 Visa Bulletin – Major Retrogression in EB-2 India, EB-2 China and EB-3 China

The U.S. State Department has just released the June 2016 Visa Bulletin which is the ninth Visa Bulletin for the FY2016 fiscal year. The major headline in the upcoming month’s Visa Bulletin is the significant retrogression in [...]

By |2017-05-20T21:47:06-04:00May 7th, 2016|Articles, EB-2, EB-3, News, News Alert, Visa Bulletin|

USCIS Completes Data Entry and Receipting of H-1B Cap Petitions

Many of our readers are aware that as of April 7, 2016, USCIS had received a sufficient number of H-1B cap-subject petitions to fill the annual H-1B quota. As USCIS has been issuing receipt notices for the H-1B cap cases which are being selected for processing, we wanted to provide an update as to how [...]

By |2017-05-20T21:47:06-04:00May 2nd, 2016|Articles, H-1B, News, News Alert|

Alert: FY2017 H-1B Cap Demand Among Highest Ever; 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 (FY2017) H-1B cap petitions.    According to USCIS, there were over 236,000 H-1B cap petitions filed during the April 1st-7th filing period.   This indicates that the number of H-1B cap filings this [...]

By |2016-04-12T22:26:29-04:00April 12th, 2016|Articles, H-1B, News, News Alert|

May 2016 Visa Bulletin – Very Limited Forward Movement for EB India; Remaining EB Categories Remain Unchanged Slows Down

The U.S. State Department has just released the May 2016 Visa Bulletin which is the eighth Visa Bulletin for the FY2016 fiscal year. The major headline in the upcoming month’s Visa [...]

By |2017-05-20T21:47:06-04:00April 12th, 2016|Articles, H-1B, News, News Alert, Visa Bulletin|

Alert: FY2017 H-1B Cap Reached on April 7th

The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service (USCIS) announced that, as of today, April 7th, they have received a sufficient number of H-1B petitions to meet the annual H-1B cap for the 2017 fiscal year (FY2017).    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 |2016-04-07T14:19:32-04:00April 7th, 2016|Articles, H-1B, News, News Alert|

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