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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H-1B Cap Season
Get Ready for H-1B Cap Season, With or Without Changes
By Catherine V. Wadhwani on
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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