H-1B
As announced today by USCIS, the registration period for the 2026 H-1B lottery will open at Noon, March 7, 2025. It will run through Noon, March 24, 2025. An employer wishing to sponsor an employee will need to file a registration during this time to be entered into the lottery.
H-1B
Recent developments under President Donald Trump's administration suggest potential delays and challenges in the H-1B visa processing system, which could significantly affect employers and visa applicants alike. Impact of Trump's Buyout on USCIS President Trump's recent executive orders and buyout offers to federal employees
H-1B
The H-1B Cap Filing season will reopen in March of this year with some significant changes. The USCIS is introducing organizational accounts and adjusting how the lottery is conducted to ensure fairness. A. Organizational Accounts For both non-cap filings and the fiscal year 2025 H-1B cap season, USCIS will introduce
H-1B
For those interested in the difficulties that companies and individuals went through over the past 4 years in terms of getting and renewing H-1Bs, a good article has come out on Forbes Magazine and on its website (link here). First, why are H-1Bs important and how do they help the
DOL
Just this week, USICS and DOL issued new final rules that will take effect in 60 days. Before getting into the details of the rules, it is important to note that the new Biden administration has stated that it will halt implementation of new rules for at least 60 days
H-1B
Recently USCIS issued a new proposed regulation seeking to change how the H-1B registration and selection process is carried out for H-1B Cap Cases. Currently, USCIS accepts registrations through a certain date and performs a random selection process to determine which applications will be selected and not accepted. The proposed
DOL
Recently both the DOL and USCIS adopted new rules regarding H-1bs. We reported on them here. Just this week a US District Court in California found that USCIS and DOL violated the Administrative Procedures Act in promulgating these rules without allowing time for the public to comment on the rules
DOL
As you may know, USCIS implemented new regulations on the H-1B process, and the DOL implemented new regulations on the Prevailing Wage process. While there is at least one Court Case pending seeking an injunction on both of these regulations, it is still worthwhile going through the major changed made
H-1B
It appears that the current administration will soon have USCIS issue a new regulation regarding H-1Bs. There are three elements of the new regulation that are the most significant: 1) The regulation will be published as an “interim final rule,” which would allow it to go into effect immediately without
H-1B
USCIS announced last week that it was resuming premium processing as of June 1, 2020. However, USCIS stated that it would phase in the ability to file premium processing on cases in order to ensure that the office was not inundated with new premium processing cases before it was fully
Covid-19
The Department of Health and Human Services has a program to grant J-1 2 year home residency waivers for clinical care physicians. Under this program, the physician must be working in a Federally Qualified Community Health Centers (CHC), as designated by the government. Because of the current pandemic, however, and
Covid-19
On April 22, 2020. President Trump issued a proclamation "Suspending Entry of Immigrants Who Present Risk to the U.S. Labor Market During the Economic Recovery Following the COVID-19 Outbreak." This proclamation is effective at 11:59 pm (ET) on April 23, 2020. The proclamation will expire 60