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FY 2015 H-1B Cap: What are the Odds?

By Catherine V. Wadhwani on April 12, 2014

The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced that on April 7^th it received more than enough H-1B petitions to reach both the “regular” cap of 65,000 visas and…
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FY 2015 H-1B Cap Season…What Happens Now?

By Catherine V. Wadhwani on April 4, 2014

Your H-1B petition is now in the hands of the US Citizenship and Immigration Service (USCIS). We have confirmation that your petition was delivered and you breathe a sigh of…
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H-1B Alternative Statuses

By Robert S. Whitehill on June 28, 2012

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…

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ICE Issues Latest Round of I-9 Inspection Notices

By Fox Rothschild LLP on June 22, 2012

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 Fox Rothschild LLP on June 20, 2012

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…

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