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20
Dec

An Enhanced H-1B Program with Increased Efficiency – President Biden’s Parting gift to the Business Community?

December 20, 2024
On December 18, 2024, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is set to publish the second portion of its H-1B modernization rule. The draft rule was originally published for notice and comment on October 23, 2023.  It was broken into two parts so that the provisions concerning the H-1B registration and the lottery process...
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16
Dec

Rising EB-5 Demand Signals Potential Impact on Future Cut-Off Dates

December 16, 2024
The U.S. Department of State (DOS) in its January 2025 Visa Bulletin confirms that Final Action Dates and Dates for Filing for the Unreserved EB-5 category will remain unchanged. Additionally, the Reserved EB-5 categories will continue to be “current” for the coming month. However, the bulletin also contains an important caution: cut-off dates for the...
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25
Apr

Will the H-1B Program be Suspended in View of President Trump’s Tweet About Immigration?

April 25, 2020
Indian companies are extremely worried in view of President Trump’s tweet about signing an executive order to temporarily suspend
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11
Apr

Guidance on H-1B Worker’s Move to Another Worksite

April 11, 2020,
On April 9, 2020, the Department of Labor (DOL) released an FAQ guide (Round 3) in context of the current Covid-19 situation for guidance to
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09
Apr

Can H-1B Employees be Furloughed during COVID-19?

April 9, 2020,
We understand that in the wake of the COVID-19 crisis, employers are facing various issues such as remote work, furloughs, pay cuts and
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02
Mar

What is pre-H-1B registration and how will it affect the FY 2021 Cap filings?

March 2, 2020
Earlier, US employers filed their complete H-1B cap-subject paper petitions with the USCIS, after which, the USCIS would select petitions from the pool through a random selection process. This practice has changed for the FY 2021 H-1B cap filings. The USCIS has introduced a pre-H-1B electronic registration process.  Under this new process, the petitioning employers...
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24
Feb

Gearing up for the H-1B Cap FY2021 Registration–Steps to Create and Manage an Employer Registration Account

February 24, 2020
On December 6, 2019, the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced that it will be implementing the online registration
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03
Feb

H-1B Lottery- What is it?

February 3, 2020
H-1B Program H-1B is a temporary non-immigrant work visa issued to foreign nationals by the U.S. government. H-1B visais considered for speciality occupations that require theoretical and practical knowledge in specialized fields such as in IT, finance, accounting, architecture, engineering, mathematics, science, medicine, etc.and at least abachelor’s degree or higher in the specific speciality or...
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11
Oct

H-1B RFEs – Understanding Key Issues

October 11, 2019
An RFE (Request for Evidence) has long been viewed as an unwelcome, and often times, onerous step as it adds uncertainty to, and prolongs, the visa application process.  In the past 2 years, employers have been seeing an increasing number of RFEs issued by the USCIS (United States Citizenship and Immigration Services) in H-1B cases,...
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11
Oct

USCIS finalizes changes to H-1B Lottery

October 11, 2019
DHS has announced a final rule for a more effective and efficient H-1B visa program. The final rule (1) adds a pre-registration process to the H-1B lottery, and (2) reverses the order in which the H-1B lottery is run to maximize the number of visas awarded to applicants with advanced degrees from U.S. colleges and...
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