Immigration Services When Faced With Unforeseen Circumstances, Including Hurricanes
In the aftermath of hurricane Irma, US Citizenship and Immigration Services just released the following public service advisory. While we share this advisory to inform potentially affected individuals in the US, please carefully consider the effect of making contact or requesting any relief from USCIS in light of your individual situation. If in doubt, please […]
USCIS Will Accept H-1B Petitions for FY 2016 Beginning April 1, 2015
USCIS posts today that it will begin accepting FY2016 H-1B petitions on 4/1/15. USCIS expects to receive more petitions than the 65,000 H-1B cap during the first five business days of this year’s program and as in previous years will randomly select the cap-subject petitions for processing using a lottery system. All petitions not selected […]
DOS Confirms China-Mainland Born and India EB-2 Cut-offs
Charlie Oppenheim, Chief of Visa Control at the State Department, has confirmed that, effective March 23, 2012, no further EB-2 visas will be authorized for China-mainland born and India applicants with priority dates of August 15, 2007, or later. Visa applicants processing in April at consulates abroad will still receive visas, as those numbers were […]
As of 4/4/2012, USCIS has already received 22,323 H-1B visa application received
AILA Liaison learned at a CSC/VSC stakeholder engagement on 4/5/2012 that USCIS has received 22,323 cap-subject H-1B petitions as of 4/4/2012. Approximately 25% of the cases are for U.S. advanced degrees. AILA InfoNet Doc. No. 12040553 (posted Apr. 5, 2012)
