by admin | May 8, 2017 | Employment Based Immigrant Visa, General News, H-1B, Immigrant Visas, Immigration News, Latest News, Non-Immigrant Visas
As mentioned previously, USCIS completed the initial data entry of all 85,000 fiscal year 2018 H-1B CAP petitions that were selected for this year’s random selection process. USCIS will now adjudicate these 85,000 petitions over the next several months. In the event...
by admin | May 4, 2017 | Employment Based Immigrant Visa, General News, H-1B, Immigrant Visas, Immigration News, Latest News, Non-Immigrant Visas
On May 3, 2017, USCIS announced that it has completed the data entry of all fiscal year 2018 H-1B CAP petitions that were selected. All H-1B CAP petitions that were not selected will begin to be returned. Unfortunately, the high volume of H-1B CAP filings prevents...
by admin | Feb 27, 2017 | Employment Based Immigrant Visa, H-1B, Immigrant Visas, Non-Immigrant Visas
The number of petitions that may be filed for this year’s H-1B 2018 Cap season is anticipated to surpass last year’s 236,000 applications. With the large pool of applicants, it is important to know how to keep yourself ahead of the game—or at least give yourself a...
by admin | Jan 10, 2017 | Employment Based Immigrant Visa, General News
In Matter of Dhanasar, 26 I&N Dec. 884 (AAO 2016), USCIS announced a new analytical framework for adjudicating National Interest Waivers (“NIW”), explicitly overturning the controlling framework laid out in Matter of New York State Dep’t of Transp., 22 I&N...
by admin | Jan 3, 2017 | Employment Based Immigrant Visa
DEPARTMENT OF STATE JANUARY 2017 VISA BULLETIN FOR EMPLOYMENT-BASED CATEGORIES EB-1 REMAINS CURRENT WORLDWIDE EB-2 WORLDWIDE REMAINS CURRENT EB-2 Slow ADVANCEMENT FOR INDIA AND CHINA EB-3 ONE MONTH ADVANCEMENT WORLDWIDE EB-3 SLOW ADVANCEMENT FOR CHINA AND THE...
by admin | Aug 29, 2016 | Employment Based Immigrant Visa, General News, Immigration News
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) is proposing a new rule, which would allow certain international entrepreneurs temporary stay in the U.S. so that they may start or scale their businesses here. Under this proposed rule, DHS may parole, on a...