In recent years, the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has implemented a program whereby a randomized lottery determines which applicants will be eligible for H1B cap petitions. The initial selection process for fiscal year 2022 has now come to an end. If your name was not selected in this lottery, what can you do?
WASHINGTON - U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services will begin accepting H-1B petitions subject to the fiscal year 2018 cap on April 3, 2017. All cap-subject H-1B petitions filed before April 3, 2017, for the FY 2018 cap will be rejected. The H-1B program allows...
USCIS Confirms a FY2018 H-1B Cap Lottery USCIS confirms the process for receiving and receipting H-1B cap cases for Fiscal Year 2018 will be the same as with prior years, including a random lottery. If 65,000 H-1B Regular Cap and / or the 20,000 U.S. Masters Cap are...
March 23, 2017, NSC Announces Delays For Concurrent H-4/EAD filed With H1B Premium Processing The Nebraska Service Center (NSC) has advised that, due to the high volume of incoming premium processing requests, H-4 I-539 and H-4 I-765 EAD applications concurrently...
We met with a nurse last week who had heard and read reports that certain nurses were being denied admission in TN status. We took the opportunity to ask CBP whether there is a Trump policy change for TN admissions generally and TN nurse admissions particularly.CBP...
Update from March 10, 2017:OFLC updated its website with the following alert on March 10, 2017:In light of stakeholder input, which the Office of Foreign Labor Certification (OFLC) is considering, OFLC has temporarily removed from its website PERM FAQ Round 14...
USCIS has resumed the processing of EB-2 Waiver of the Labor Certification Requirement in the National Interest (EB-2 NIW) cases affected by the Matter of Dhanasar precedent decision. EB-2 NIW case processing was temporarily on hold pending guidance and training of...
March 6, 2017. PERM FAQ Round 14.DOL released FAQ Round 14 requiring skills to be quantified on the PERM actual minimum requirements entered in Section H.14 of ETA Form 9089, Application for Permanent Employment Certification. Guidance is applicable to applications...
Employers are required to maintain I-9 records even if not maintained by USCIS. Employers must maintain I-9 records for employees for at least 3 years or 1 year from the date of termination whichever is greater. In April 2017, USCIS will dispose of transaction records...
March 6, 2017. PERM FAQ Round 14.DOL released FAQ Round 14 Required Skills to be Quantified on the PERM actual minimum requirements entered in Section H.14 of ETA Form 9089, Application for Permanent Employment Certification. Guidance is applicable to applications...
We recently received reports that H1B I-797 Approvals are being Noticed as "H1B1" even though the petition is not an H-1B1 for a citizen of Chile or Singapore. USCIS has confirmed this was a now resolved technical error. USCIS is resending corrected H1B I-797 Approval...
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