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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Regular Cap
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PLEASE SEE MY LATER POSTS ON THIS TOPIC FOR UPDATED INFORMATION. THANK YOU.
At the time of this posting (February 3, 2021), we continue to await the final H-1B Cap…
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Get Ready for H-1B Cap Season, With or Without Changes
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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?
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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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FY2021 H-1B Cap Electronic Registration Now Open
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Ready or not, it’s time to electronically register for the upcoming H-1B Cap Lottery.
The registration period began at 12:00 noon Eastern Time on Sunday, March 1, 2020 and will…
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No PP for H-1B Cap Petitions: USCIS Suspends Premium Processing for ALL H-1B Petitions
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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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Expansive Final Rule Affecting Employment-Based Immigrant and Nonimmigrant Visa Programs Published – good news for H-1B visa holders and those seeking permanent residency
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On November 18, 2016, US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) published a final rule to “improve aspects of certain employment-based nonimmigrant and immigrant visa programs.” This final rule also “amended…
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“EB-5 is Extended Without Any Changes Until September 30, 2016”
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Since September 30, 2015 Congress has considered several immigration bills that would have completely overhauled the EB-5 program. All of us in the space, especially attorneys, had prepared ourselves for…
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FY 2016 H-1B Cap: What Are the Odds?
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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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H-1B Cap Subject Visas: MUST FILE BETWEEN APRIL 1 & 7; PP Tolled until ~5/11/2015
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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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