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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
On April 2, 2018 the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) will start accepting applications for one of the most popular U.S. work visas, H-1B, for fiscal year (FY) 2019. Our [...]
The U.S. State Department has just released the February 2018 Visa Bulletin which is the fifth Visa Bulletin for the FY2018 fiscal year. The headline in the upcoming month’s Visa Bulletin is the continued [...]
After months of speculation and discussion, USCIS has taken the initial steps in the rulemaking process in order to take away the H-4 EAD work authorization for certain H-4 spouses which had been available since 2015. It should be noted that this is an initial step in the rulemaking process and until and [...]
