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Your Income Tax Return Matters
Whether you are a permanent resident, a temporary worker, or undocumented in the U.S., failure to file taxes or filing taxes incorrectly may have serious immigration implications. As such, please remember that the filing deadline for your 2012 taxes was...
Scam Alert! Reports of Individuals Impersonating USCIS Officers & Other Scams That Prey on Immigrants
In recent days, there have been reports of a new scam that targets foreign nationals in the U.S. According to a report received by the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA), an individual impersonating an officer of the U.S. Citizenship &...
Update: USCIS Received 124,000 FY 2014 Cap-Subject H-1B Petitions, Conducted Lottery on April 7, 2013
The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has announced that it has conducted the computer-generated random selection process (commonly known as the “H-1B lottery”), to select H-1B petitions for processing to meet the caps of 20,000 for the H-1B U.S....
USCIS Announces FY 2014 H-1B Cap Has Been Met; Lottery to be Conducted
The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced this afternoon (Friday, April 5, 2013) that it has received a sufficient number of H-1B petitions to reach the H-1B numerical limitation of 65,000 (commonly known as the “H-1B cap”) for fiscal...
H-1B Cap Filings Update
On April 1, 2013, the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) began receiving H-1B petitions filed by employers for fiscal year 2014. USCIS has announced that it anticipates it may meet the numerical quota between April 1, 2013, and...
Company Options After the H-1B Cap is Reached
H-1B visas are capped at 65,000 annually, with an additional 20,000 set aside for those with master's degrees from U.S. colleges and universities. With the April 1st H-1B filing date rapidly approaching, and the uncertainty of knowing when the H-1B...
USCIS Adjudication of Certain Premium Processing FY-2014 Cap-Subject H-1B Petitions To Be Delayed
The filing period for H-1B Petitions subject to the H-1B Cap for the fiscal year beginning October 1, 2013 (FY-2014), will begin on April 1, 2013. However, the USCIS has announced that Premium Processing adjudications for these types of cases...
USCIS Releases New Form I-9 – Changes to Form and Tips for Employers
On March 8, 2013, USCIS released the much anticipated new two-page Form I-9, Employment Eligibility Verification Form. The form was updated to address the common issues associated with the previous one-page form. The good news is that USCIS has taken...
