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 advanced degree exemption, to first electronically register and pay the associated $10 H-1B registration fee before filing a petition for the fiscal year 2021 H-1B
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Immigration Can Continue to Make America Great, If We Let It!
By Robert S. Whitehill on
Posted in General Immigration News and Updates
At a recent event, one of my former high school classmates who today is a distinguished Stanford University professor asked me whether there was much immigration legal work in Pittsburgh. He then commented that 80 percent of his graduate students were foreign nationals.
Of course, the same likely could be said for Carnegie Mellon or…
Alert! H-1B Premium Processing Resumed
By Ali Brodie on
Posted in H-1B Temporary Workers
Yesterday, USCIS announced it will resume Premium Processing effective Tuesday, March 12, 2019 for all H-1B petitions. Petitions processed with Premium Processing result in USCIS review within 15-calendar days. If USCIS fails to act within this time period, the government will refund the petitioner’s premium processing fee.
The reopening of Premium Processing is not specific…
FY2020 H-1B Cap: Registration and Lottery Selection Update
By Catherine V. Wadhwani on
Posted in H-1B Temporary Workers, Immigrant Visas
Cap-subject US employers and their prospective employees alike have been waiting on edge to find out whether the FY2020 H-1B Cap Season would proceed as before or whether US Citizenship and Immigration Service’s (USCIS’s) recently proposed significant changes would be implemented to take effect before April 2019. The result: the Registration requirement will not take …
H-1B Cap Season: Important Proposed Changes
By Catherine V. Wadhwani on
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has issued its long-awaited Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) to amend USCIS Regulations relating to cap-subject H-1B petitions filed under both the regular cap and advanced degree exemption. Comments from the public may be submitted to the agency within the next 30 days. This does not affect cap-exempt H-1B …