by admin | Jul 16, 2018 | General News, H-1B, Immigration News, L-1, Latest News, Non-Immigrant Visas
According to a recent new guidance regarding issuances of Notices to Appear (NTA), USCIS will greatly expand its mandate for issuing NTAs without first consulting Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). USCIS officers will now issue NTAs and thereby place...
by admin | Apr 23, 2018 | General News, H-1B, Non-Immigrant Visas, Uncategorized
Ever since the new administration came to office, a higher level of scrutiny has been applied to H-1B visas by USCIS through increasingly frequent Request For Evidence (RFE) and close scrutiny over wage level 1 positions. On April 11, USCIS conducted two lotteries for...
by admin | Apr 18, 2018 | H-1B, Uncategorized
USCIS has reached the H-1B Cap for the Fiscal Year of 2019. This year, 190,098 H-1B petitions were filed – an approximate 4.5% decrease from last year’s 199,000 filings and still significantly fewer than the record 236,000 H-1B petitions that were filed in 2016. In...
by admin | Sep 25, 2017 | General News, H-1B, Latest News, Non-Immigrant Visas
On September 18, 2017, the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced that it has resumed premium processing for all H-1B visa petitions selected under the Fiscal Year (FY) 2018 cap. Likewise, premium processing has also resumed for the...
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...