As of today, April 6, 2018, USCIS will no longer be accepting new, cap-subject H-1B petitions in its randomized lottery for Fiscal Year (FY) 2019. USCIS will now conduct the lottery and begin to send receipt notices and rejections over…
On March 20, 2018, the U.S. Citizenship & Immigration Services (USCIS) announced that it will temporarily suspend premium processing for H-1B petitions filed toward this year’s annual cap, the Fiscal Year 2019 cap. This means that all cap-subject H-1B petitions…
It’s that time of year again for employers who hire foreign workers, most often talented individuals who first came to the US as F-1 students to complete Bachelor’s, Master’s or other degrees from U.S. universities. It is time to begin…
In response to several policy announcements made by the Administration in early 2017, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (“USCIS”) increased its scrutiny of H-1B applications and began issuing significantly more Requests for Evidence (“RFE”), particularly for H-1B petitions that utilized…
On March 3, 2017, the U.S. Citizenship & Immigration Services (USCIS) announced that it will temporarily suspend premium processing for all H-1B petitions, beginning on April 3, 2017, and that the suspension may last up to 6 months. What is…
The first day to file a “cap-subject” H-1B petition for the fiscal year (“FY”) is generally April 1. Since April 1 is on a Saturday this year, USCIS will begin accepting petitions on Monday, April 3. Due to the time…
The U.S. Consulate in Toronto recently announced it is suspending visa processing for third country nationals seeking visa appointments in Toronto during June, July and August of this year. The suspension primarily affects non-Canadians, many of whom are in H-1B…
USCIS announced on May 2, 2016, that it has completed data entry of all fiscal year 2017 H-1B cap-subject petitions selected in the computer-generated random lottery process. USCIS will now begin returning all H-1B cap-subject petitions that were not selected. Due…
U.S. Citizenship & Immigration Services (USCIS) began accepting cap-subject H-1B petitions on April 1, 2016, and on April 7, it had already reached the cap for fiscal year 2017. USCIS has just announced that it will begin processing H-1B petitions…
The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced April 7 that the H-1B cap has been reached for fiscal year 2017. Although USCIS did not indicate how many H-1B petitions it had received, the number exceeds the total 85,000 available…