Department of Homeland SecurityH-1B

Department of Homeland Security: May 22, 2024

Department of Homeland Security Automatic Extension Period for Employment Authorization Documents Once Again Increased U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (“USCIS”) has once again increased the automatic extension period for certain timely-filed Employment Authorization Documents (“EADs”) from 180 days to 540 days after reducing the extension period from 540 days to 180 days in late October

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Department of Homeland SecurityH-1B

Department of Homeland Security Update: January 11, 2024

Department of Homeland Security ATTENTION: H-1B Cap Season Start for FY 2025 With the new H-1B Cap season quickly approaching, it is time to start evaluating your H-1B needs and preparing for the annual H-1B lottery. Each year, the demand for H-1B visas far exceeds the available supply and since 2020, the government has been

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Citizenship and ImmigrationH-1B

Department of Homeland Security Updates: September 6, 2022

H-1B Cap Reached for Fiscal Year 2023 On August 23, 2022, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (“USCIS”) reached the congressionally-mandated H-1B numerical allocations for the regular cap and advanced degree exemption (“master’s cap”). Notifications regarding selection or non-selection have been sent to registrants’ online accounts and the status for registrations that were not selected will

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Department of StateH-1BImmigration

Department of State Update

As U.S. immigrant and nonimmigrant visa issuance bans imposed by the Trump administration have lapsed and U.S. consulates abroad have restarted routine visa appointments, most applicants for popular work visas, such as H-1B and L-1, and their U.S. employers do not realize that the current visa backlog includes nearly half a million applicants who meet

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COVID-19Department of StateH-1BImmigration

H-1B Cap Lottery, Expiration of PP 10052 + DOS Update

USCIS Announces Completion of H-1B Cap Lottery U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced that they have received enough electronic registrations during the initial registration period to reach the fiscal year (FY) 2022 H-1B numerical allocations (H-1B cap) including the advanced degree exemption (master’s cap), and that they have now notified all prospective petitioners with

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H-1B

H-1B Registration + New Green Cards

H-1B Registration Period for FY2022 Cap-Subject H-1B Petitions Opens On March 9 U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has announced that the initial registration period for FY2022 H‐1B cap-subject petitions will open at noon Eastern on March 9 and run through noon Eastern on March 25. USCIS intends to notify registrants by March 31st whether

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COVID-19H-1B

H-1B Registration To Open Soon for FY2022 Cap-Subject H-1B Petitions The beginning of the new cap-H-1B petition filing season with the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) is upon us. USCIS will once again be using the H-1B registration process implemented last year to select the H-1B petitions. Instead of the prior process requiring preparation

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Department of Homeland SecurityH-1B

DHS Update

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has announced it will be bringing back expedited processing (i.e., Premium Processing) option for the Form I-129, Petition for a Nonimmigrant Worker-based filings and Form I-140, Immigrant Petition.  Importantly, the return of Premium Processing will be gradual and proceed in phases over the month of June.  Effective June 1,

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