by admin | Jan 23, 2014 | General News, H-1B, Non-Immigrant Visas
USCIS announced on January 27, 2011 that it has received a sufficient number of H-1B petitions to reach the statutory cap for fiscal year (FY) 2011. USCIS is notifying the public that january 26, 2011 is the final receipt date for new H-1B specialty occupation...
by admin | Jan 23, 2014 | General News, H-1B, Non-Immigrant Visas
For the past few months, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Citizenship and Immigration Services (“CIS”) has conducted an investigation program aimed at visiting H-1B petitioner worksites throughout the U.S. These site visits began as part of the...
by admin | Jan 23, 2014 | General News, H-1B, Non-Immigrant Visas
The AILA U.S. Customs and Border Protection (“CBP”) Liaison Committee received reports from AILA members that CBP inspectors at the Newark, New Jersey airport port of entry were apparently assisting in an investigation involving certain H-1B nonimmigrants from India...
by admin | Jan 23, 2014 | General News, H-1B, Non-Immigrant Visas
As a result of increased site visits and a general inclination to decrease the number of H-1B’s approved, The US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has published a watershed memo on January 8th, 2010 (hereinafter “the Neufeld Memo”). This memo will...
