Clients often call our office asking who is required to pay for fees associated with an H-1B or a green card obtained through an employer. Is the employer required to pay for everything or can the employee pay in some...
Some employers permit their foreign national employees to choose their own immigration attorneys to prepare various employment-based petitions on their behalf (e.g. petitions for H-1B, H-3, L-1, TN, E, O-1, P, J-1, or other temporary status, or for lawful permanent...
Employers who have filed cap-subject H-1Bs during the first week of April 2013 are eagerly awaiting a Receipt Notice from the USCIS, which would definitively confirm that their H-1B petition was counted towards the annual cap and will be adjudicated....
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....
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...
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...
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...
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...