Many of our readers recall that on December 18, 2024 USCIS released a final rule “Modernizing H-1B Requirements, Providing Flexibility in the F-1 Program, and Program Improvements Affecting Other Nonimmigrant Workers” (also see our analysis) which sought to “modernize” [...]
USCIS has announced that they have reached the H-1B cap limit for fiscal year 2026 (FY 2026) after the initial (and only) selection round. This means that, for the first time ever, they will not be conducting additional [...]
Many of our readers know that the H-1B visa is a critical and very common work visa used routinely by U.S. employers to hire skilled foreign nationals. The H-1B visa has an annual cap for first-time [...]
Many of our readers are aware that USCIS has received sufficient number of H-1B cap registrations to fill the annual H-1B quota and they have completed the random lottery to allocate the available visa numbers. Selected registrants should already have been notified. [...]
Spring and early summer are generally busy period for recent foreign college graduates as far as employment immigration is concerned. On one hand, foreign college graduates are either applying for their [...]
The Edakunni settlement pursuant to which USCIS agreed to bundle and approve at the same time concurrently-filed I-539/I-765 applications for H-4/L-2 and H-4 EAD with an underlying I-129 H-1B or L-1 petition is set to expire on January 18, 2025. We anticipate that USCIS will stop the bundling of concurrently-filed H-4/L-2/EAD applications with H-1B/L-1 [...]
USCIS has just released the December 18, 2024 final rule “Modernizing H-1B Requirements, Providing Flexibility in the F-1 Program, and Program Improvements Affecting Other Nonimmigrant Workers” which seeks to “modernize” the H-1B program [...]
USCIS has announced that they have reached the H-1B cap limit for fiscal year 2025 (FY 2025). This means that they will not be conducting additional lottery rounds of selection after the initial two rounds. This also means [...]
October 1 is the first day of the government fiscal year and also the date when H-1B “cap” applicants in the U.S. have their status changed automatically to H-1B. This is a reminder that employees who may not have been [...]
USCIS has just completed the second round of the H-1B cap selection lottery and notified the selected applicants. The August 2024 selection round was due to the fact that a (significant) number of H-1B cap registrations [...]
