USCIS announces FY 2005 H1B Petition filing Status
Numbers Reflect Cases Received As Of August 18th Washington, D.C.– U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced today that it has received 45,900 H-1B petitions that will count against...
View ArticleDOL issues guidance on H2B visas
Supplemental Guidance for Labor Certification Process for Temporary Employment of Nonimmigrant Workers in the United States (H-2B Workers); Fiscal Year (FY) 2005 AGENCY: Employment and Training...
View ArticleThe show is over; USCIS reaches H1B Cap
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced today that it has received enough H-1B petitions to meet the congressionally-mandated cap for fiscal year 2005. Congress has set an annual...
View ArticleActuaries and Plant Pathologists included under NAFTA
DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY Adding Actuaries and Plant Pathologists to Appendix 1603.D.1 of the North American Free Trade AgreementAGENCY: U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, DHS.ACTION:...
View ArticleUSCIS announces FY 2005 H2B Processing
Numbers reflect cases received as of November 1, 2004 U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced today that it has received H-2B petitions for 33,153 beneficiaries counting against the...
View ArticleCongress passes L1 and H1B Reform Law
The Fiscal Year 2005 Omnibus Appropriations Bill was approved by both the House and Senate on November 20, 2004. The Bill introduces many changes in the existing provisions relating to work visas, such...
View ArticleDOL notifies interim final rule on H1B1 Labor Condition Applications
The Department of Labor (Department or DOL) is amending its regulations related to the temporary employment of foreign professionals to implement procedural requirements applicable to a new visa...
View ArticleUSCIS notifies H1B processing procedure
The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has published a notice explaining how it will process H-1B petitions for new employment for Fiscal Year (FY) 2005 now that it is clear that the...
View ArticlePresident signs Omnibus Appropriations Act; USCIS to implement the new law
New law changes aspects of the temporary work program U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has announced that President Bush has signed the Omnibus Appropriations Act for FY 2005, which...
View ArticlePremium Processing Service suspended for R1 applications
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has temporarily suspended Premium Processing Service for I-129 petitions seeking R-1 nonimmigrant visa classification filed with the USCIS. Premium...
View ArticleUSCIS to Issue Regulation on Multiple H1B Filings
The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) will soon issue an interim final regulation that will prohibit employers from filing more than one H-1B petition on behalf of a single foreign...
View ArticleCommon H1B Errors Leading to Rejections and Denials
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) released a statement showing the common errors leading to petition rejections or denials. This is a list of the most frequently seen and easily cured...
View ArticleUSCIS Offers Helpful Hints for Filing a FY 2009 H1B Cap Case
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), anticipates that April 1, 2008 will see a repeat of the mass filings from last year. With this expectation USCIS has published this list of measures...
View ArticleImportant Changes and Clarifications for the H1B Application Process
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has issued clarifying regulations today, explaining how exactly the H-1B application process will be handled this year. Some important changes have...
View ArticleSenate Approves Strict Rules on Hiring H1-B Workers
The U.S. Senate agreed on Friday to set restrictions on the hiring of H-1B workers by financial services firms that receive federal bailout funds, but it didn't bar the hiring of foreign workers as...
View ArticleThe H1B Visa and EB-2 Green Card for Entrepreneurs and Start-up Companies
On August 2, 2011, the Obama Administration and USCIS outlined a series of initiatives to continue to promote start-up enterprises and spur job creation in the U.S. Under these initiatives, which are...
View ArticleUSCIS updates FAQs on Establishing the ‘Employer-Employee’ Relationship in...
Under the recently announced USCIS’ initiatives to promote startup enterprises and spur job creation, USCIS has clarified that entrepreneurs with an ownership stake in their own companies, including...
View ArticleUSCIS publishes Final Rule establishing Transitional Worker Classification...
USCIS has recently published a final rule that establishes a Transitional Worker (CW) classification for workers in the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI). The CW classification allows...
View ArticleOFLC issues Q&As regarding delays in issuing PWD and H1B LCAs
On September 12, 2011, the Office of Foreign labor Certification (OFLC) issued Questions and Answers regarding the delays in issuing Prevailing Wage Determinations (PWD) and H-1B Labor Condition...
View ArticleDOL postpones the effective date for final rule concerning H-2B wage...
The Department of Labor (DOL) has announced a 60-day postponement of the effective date for the final rule concerning the wage methodology for the Temporary Non-Agricultural Employment H-2B program,...
View ArticleALJ approves Settlement Agreement in Prince George’s County H-1B Teachers case
On September 20, 2011, the Office of the Administrative Law Judges (ALJ) of the U.S. Department of Labor, Washington, DC, issued a Decision and Order approving a Settlement Agreement between the...
View ArticleChennai Consulate to be the Sole Blanket L Visa Processing Center in India
The US Embassy in New Delhi has announced that starting December 1, 2011, the US Consulate General in Chennai will be the sole Blanket L category visa acceptance and processing center in India....
View ArticleUSCIS to allow bundled filings for L-1 petitions
USCIS has, in a communication to stakeholders, informed that if petitioners bundle multiple L-1B petitions related to the same project, where the location and the specialized knowledge duties of the...
View ArticleReport suggests dramatic increase in denials of H-1B and L-1 petitions by USCIS
A recent report of the National Foundation for American Policy (NFAP), a non-profit, public policy research organization based in Arlington, Virginia, suggests that there has been a dramatic increase...
View ArticleNew DOS Rule to allow L Visas to be issued for up to 5 years
DOS has passed a new rule that permits the issuance of L visas with validity periods based on the visa reciprocity schedule, which for certain countries, can be for a period up to 5 years. Under the...
View ArticleR-1 Religious Workers Can Recapture Time Spent Outside the U.S.
The USCIS has recently issued a Policy Memorandum outlining the procedure to be used for recapturing time spent outside the US by R-1 nonimmigrants when seeking an extension of their R nonimmigrant...
View ArticleAAO issues Binding Precedent Decision on P-3 Visa Petition
The USCIS Administrative Appeals Office (AAO) has issued a binding precedent decision addressing the term “culturally unique” and its significance in the adjudication of petitions for performing...
View ArticleEmployer ordered to pay Back Wages of about $253,000 for violation of H-1B...
In a recent decision from the United States Department of Labor Office of Administrative Law Judges (Administrator, Wage and Hour Division vs. Xcel Solutions Corporation), Administrative Law Judge...
View ArticleNew E Visa Processing Instructions for Mission Italy
The US Embassy in Italy has published new E visa processing instructions for Mission Italy, and has announced that effective August 15, 2012 all E visa submissions must comply with the new procedures,...
View ArticleSen. Grassley introduces H-1B and L-1 Visa Reforms Bill – Proposes Additional...
On March 18, 2013, Senator Chuck Grassley and Senator Sherrod Brown introduced a bill that they claim will bring reforms to the H-1B and L visa programs and help ensure that Americans are given top...
View ArticleIndian National Pleads Guilty in Fraudulent H1B Visa Scheme
An Indian national has pleaded guilty to five federal charges for his participation in a fraudulent scheme to obtain false H-1B visas for foreign workers. It is reported that he executed a fraudulent...
View ArticleUSCIS Temporarily Suspends Adjudication of Most H-2B Petitions
USCIS has announced that effective March 22, 2013, it temporarily suspended adjudication of most Form I-129 H-2B petitions for temporary non-agricultural workers. This development follows a Court order...
View ArticleCW-1 Visa Classification: DHS Sets Limit of 14,000 for FY 2014
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has recently announced a limit of 14,000 nonimmigrants for fiscal year (FY) 2014 for the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI)-Only Transitional...
View ArticleInfosys Pays Record $34 million to Settle Allegations of Systemic Visa Fraud...
The U.S. Justice Department has announced that Infosys Corporation, an Indian consulting, technology, and outsourcing company, has agreed to a civil settlement of allegations of systemic visa fraud and...
View ArticleBorder Security Fee $2,000 and $2,250 For H-1B and L-1 Petitions Is No Longer...
Provisions imposing the 'border security fee', an additional filing fee of $2,000 for certain H-1B petitions and $2,250 for certain L-1 petitions has lapsed on October 1, 2015....
View ArticleAdditional H-1B and L-1 Filing Fees Imposed for Certain Employers
li{padding-bottom:10px;line-height:24px;}p{line-height:24px}On 12/18/15, President Obama signed into law the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2016, the omnibus appropriations bill for 2016....
View ArticleH-1B1, E-3 Nonimmigrants Eligible for 240 Days Continued Employment When...
p,li{line-height:24px}The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has published a final rule revising regulations affectingH-1B1 (Highly Skilled Workers for Specialty Occupations...
View ArticleStartup Visa For International Entrepreneurs
li{padding-bottom:10px}p{line-height:24px}Starting July 17, 2017, the International Entrepreneur Parole will enable start-up business-owners and entrepreneurs to begin to establish and gr...
View ArticlePresident Trump’s New Executive Order: What The Hire American Policy Really...
li{padding-bottom:10px}p{line-height:24px}President Trump has signed an Executive Order ("Buy American and Hire American") on April 18, 2017, outlining that it shall be the policy of the ex...
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