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May 21, 2018
USCIS Makes Important Policy Announcements Regarding Student and Exchange Visitors
In the last two weeks, USCIS issued two important announcements regarding nonimmigrant student and exchange visitors. The first was issued on Friday, May 11, 2018 and marks a dramatic shift in the way that USCIS will calculate the accrual of unlawful presence for student...
read moreMay 11, 2018
Lawsuit Challenges USCIS’ New Policy on H-1B Eligibility for Job Contractors
On May 1, 2018 a consortium of companies filed a motion requesting a temporary restraining order and preliminary injunction against USCIS’s recent Policy Memo (PM-602-0157) regarding H-1B eligibility for job contractors. The Policy Memo in question requires H-1B petitions involving job contractors to submit...
read moreApril 24, 2018
Not Selected in the H-1B Cap Lottery?
The H-1B Visa for “specialty occupation” temporary workers is one of the more well-known categories in the U.S. immigration system. The main requirement for the visa is that the U.S. job opportunity be one that requires at least a U.S. bachelor’s degree or its...
read moreApril 12, 2018
USCIS Completes the H-1B Cap Random Selection Process for FY 2019
USCIS announced today that it received 190,098 cap-subject H-1B petitions during the filing period from April 2-6, 2018. On April 11, 2018, USCIS conducted a random, computer-generated, lottery selection process, to choose the 65,000 regular cap petitions and the 20,000 “master’s cap” petitions that...
read moreApril 11, 2018
U.S. Department of Labor Confirms Employers May Retain PERM Audit Files Electronically
During the most recent Quarterly Stakeholder Meeting, the U.S. Department of Labor Office of Foreign Labor Certification (OFLC) confirmed that employers may electronically retain PERM audit file documents. OFLC noted that with the move toward electronic communications, it is highly unlikely they would need...
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