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It’s Time for the H-1B Lottery & New Rule Promises to Improve Odds of Selection This Year!
It is that time of the year again where U.S. employers consider which of their current or prospective employees should be registered towards the FY2025 H-1B lottery occurring in March 2024. Unlike previous years, USCIS just announced a new beneficiary...
USCIS Announces Plans to Conduct 2nd H-1B Lottery!!
On July 27, 2023, the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced that it plans to conduct a 2nd H-1B lottery this year. USCIS received a record 780,884 H-1B registrations this year, but concluded that more than half were submitted...
Is This a Joke? This Year’s H-1B Lottery Defies Logic & Requires Congressional Reform.
U.S. employers have benefitted from the H-1B visa program since 1990, allowing them to recruit and hire temporary foreign talent in “specialty occupations” which require at least bachelor’s degree or higher. This year’s H-1B lottery, however, reached the highest number...
USCIS Announces Selections for 1st Round of FY 2024 H-1B Lottery
On March 27, 2023, the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced that it had completed the selection process for the Fiscal Year 2024 H-1B cap lottery and that all employers for whom an H-1B was selected have been notified....
It’s Almost Time for the H-1B Lottery Again! Will This Year’s Odds Be Better?
It is that time of the year again where U.S. employers consider which of their current or prospective employees should be registered towards the FY2024 H-1B lottery occurring in March 2023. This year’s H-1B cap process will be similar to that of...
An Overview of O-1 Nonimmigrant Status
If you were not selected in the H-1B lottery, you feel you may have exhausted all other visa options and you consider yourself to be at the top of your field, then an O-1 visa may be the right option...
It’s Almost Time for the H-1B Lottery Again!
It is that time of the year where we reach out to our clients to find out if there are any employees that might need a new H-1B visa for the next fiscal year (2023), which begins on October 1,...
Plan B: What to do if your H-1B was not selected in the lottery?
As of March 27, 2021, the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has announced which individuals were selected towards the Fiscal Year 2022 H-1B lottery. It is unclear whether the selections will continue through March 31, 2021. Immigration law sets...
