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H-1B Cap Season: It’s Time to Prepare!

By Catherine V. Wadhwani on January 3, 2022

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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Get Ready for H-1B Cap Season, With or Without Changes

By Catherine V. Wadhwani on January 11, 2021

Following up on its November announcement, last week USCIS issued a Final Rule to change the way cap-subject H-1B petitions are selected.

The Final Rule (which is unchanged from the…
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Selection in the H-1B Cap Lottery if the Proposed New Process Takes Effect?

By Catherine V. Wadhwani on November 25, 2020

On November 2, 2020, the Department of Homeland Security issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) announcing its plan to drastically change the way USCIS selects the H-1B Cap registrations…
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H-1B Electronic Registration Process for Next Fiscal Year Cap Season will open 03/01/20

By Alka Bahal on December 12, 2019

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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No PP for H-1B Cap Petitions: USCIS Suspends Premium Processing for ALL H-1B Petitions

By Alka Bahal on March 5, 2017

On March 3, The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service (USCIS) announced that it will temporarily suspend premium processing for all H-1B petitions starting on April 3, 2017 until further notice.
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FY2017 H-1B Cap: USCIS Temporarily Suspends Use of Pre-Paid Mailers for Certain H-1B Cap Subject Petitions

By Alka Bahal on April 28, 2016

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced on April 20, 2016 that that for two weeks after premium processing resumes for H-1B cap-subject petitions (scheduled to start on May 12,…
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FY 2017 H-1B Cap: What are the Odds?

By Catherine V. Wadhwani on April 22, 2016

For FY 2017, the US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) received approximately 236,000 cap-subject H-1B petitions—which is more than last year by about 3,000 petitions.  Because the number of available…
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The visa gold rush is on: Pittsburgh companies can’t get enough skilled workers because of our crazy work-visa system

By Robert S. Whitehill on March 31, 2016

America’s traditional view on immigration has been: “Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.” As we head into the fall presidential elections, we’re now…
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H-1B Cap Subject Visas: MUST FILE BETWEEN APRIL 1 & 7; PP Tolled until ~5/11/2015

By Alka Bahal on March 17, 2015

As many are aware, the filing period for H-1B petitions subject to the fiscal year 2016 numerical cap begins in about two weeks, on April 1, 2015.  United States Citizenship…
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FY2016 H-1B Cap: USCIS Issues Helpful Information

By Catherine V. Wadhwani on March 13, 2015

You’ve likely been flooded with information regarding H-1B season from multiple sources.  Yesterday, the US Citizenship and Immigration Service (USCIS) issued its own information(http://www.uscis.gov/news/uscis-will-accept-h-1b-petitions-fiscal-year-2016-beginning-april-1-2015) regarding Fiscal Year 2016…
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