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DHS Proposes Work Authorization for Spouses of H-1B Employees
In what would be a significant change to regulations, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security is proposing that spouses of employees in H-1B status be permitted to work in certain circumstances. The proposal is not a blanket grant of work...
The H-1B Cap: Post-lottery Update
On April 7, 2014, just seven days after it began accepting filings for H-1B filings for the 2015 fiscal year, the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service (USCIS) announced that it had received enough petitions to reach the 85,000 statutory cap...
USCIS Adjudication of Cap-Subject H-1B Petitions Set to Begin for FY-2015
The filing period for H-1B Petitions subject to the H-1B Cap for the fiscal year beginning October 1, 2014 (FY-2015), will begin on April 1, 2014. The number of H-1B petitions for the coming fiscal year is expected to significantly...
H-1B Season Has Arrived for Fiscal Year 2015
Filings Will Begin on April 1, 2014 While many know April 1st as April Fools' Day, we immigration attorneys know this date as the first date to file H-1B petitions for the upcoming fiscal year. The H-1B is one of...
Who Pays for H-1B and Green Card Fees?
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...
The Risks of Letting your Employees Choose Their Own Immigration Counsel
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...
Update on H-1B Visa Cap: Employers May Be Waiting for News on Their H-1B Petition
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....
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....
