Happy New Year and Happy H-1B Cap Season!
Now is the time for US employers to prepare for registration in the H-1B Cap Lottery.
Readers may recall that H-1B Temporary
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FY2022 H-1B Cap Registration Dates Announced
By Catherine V. Wadhwani on
As anxiously awaited, USCIS has announced the initial FY2022 H-1B Cap Registration dates. Employer Electronic Registration will open on Tuesday, March 9, 2021, at 12:00 noon Eastern Time and continue …
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USCIS to Delay Effective Date of H-1B Selection Process Changes
By Catherine V. Wadhwani on
USCIS just announced that it will be publishing a notice in the Federal Register to delay implementation of changes to the H-1B Selection Final Rule until December 31, 2021. …
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USCIS Issues FY2021 H-1B Cap Lottery Results
By Catherine V. Wadhwani on
With lightning speed, USCIS closed the FY2021 H-1B Cap Registration Process, conducted the lottery (random selection process), and issued the lottery results.
Since yesterday, March 27, 2020, the agency has…
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H-1B Electronic Registration Process for Next Fiscal Year Cap Season will open 03/01/20
By Alka Bahal on
From the Public Engagement Division of USCIS: U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services announced on 12/6/19 the requirement for employers seeking to file H-1B cap-subject petitions, including those eligible for the…
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FY 2016 H-1B Cap: What Are the Odds?
By Catherine V. Wadhwani on
Last year at about this time, I published a blog post captioned, “FY 2015 H-1B Cap: What are the Odds?” (https://immigrationview.foxrothschild.com/h-1b-temporary-workers/fy-2015-h-1b-cap-what-are-the-odds/). According to my very basic calculations, I estimated that…
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FY 2015 H-1B Cap: What are the Odds?
By Catherine V. Wadhwani on
The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced that on April 7th it received more than enough H-1B petitions to reach both the “regular” cap of 65,000 visas and…
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H-1B Alternative Statuses
By Robert S. Whitehill on
There are no spots available for cap-subject H-1Bs for FY2013. It’s a bad and scary time for non-immigrant entrepreneurs and recent graduates, but “H” isn’t the only letter in the…
ICE Issues Latest Round of I-9 Inspection Notices
By Alka Bahal on
It has been reported that a new round of approximately 500 Notices of Inspection (NOIs) were recently issued by ICE last week, directed toward employers engaged in critical infrastructure, agriculture and…
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ELIS – USCIS Releases FAQs
By Alka Bahal on
USCIS has released FAQs on ELIS (Electronic Immigration System), including information on what is ELIS, the types of benefit requests that are currently available in ELIS, questions on Form I-20…