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The ruling applies to anyone in Maryland with a final deportation order who started the process of obtaining legal status based on having an American spouse and is ineligible for a provisional unlawful presence waiver, according to the American Civil Liberties Union.Read More
USCIS will resume premium processing on Tuesday, Feb. 19, for all H-1B petitions filed on or before Dec. 21, 2018.Read More
From USCIS.gov on 3/11/19. USCIS will resume premium processing on Tuesday, March 12, for all H-1B petitions. If you have received a request for evidence (RFE) for a pending petition, you should include the RFE response with the premium processing request. When an H-1B petitioner properly requests the agency’s premium processing service, USCIS guarantees a 15-day processing time. If we do not take certain…Read More
Recently, WHD has seen a rise in the use of electronic notifications as workplaces increasingly provide their employees with documents by electronic means. This Field Assistance Bulletin (FAB) reiterates an H-1B petitioner’s obligations when using electronic means to make the requisite notice to all affected employees. This includes those who are employed by a third-party employer. The H-1B petitioner must notify all…Read More
Note to all clients: H-1B Season. All H-1B CAP petitions must prepared to be sent to USCIS on March 30th to be received by USCIS on the first business day of April (USCIS considers the first 5 business days of April to be the first business day). This is the time of year that approximately 175,000 H1-Bs are filed with…Read More
Premium processing will be offered in a two-phased approach during the FY 2020 cap season so USCIS can best manage the premium processing requests without fully suspending it as in previous years. The first phase will include FY 2020 cap-subject H-1B petitions requesting a change of status and the second phase will include all other FY 2020 cap-subject petitions. Read the USCIS news release here.Read More
The H-1B Employer Data Hub includes data from fiscal year 2009 through the first quarter of fiscal year 2019 on employers who have submitted petitions to employ H-1B nonimmigrant workers. Data can be queried by fiscal year, employer name, city, state, zip code, and NAICS code. The H-1B Employer Data Hub has data on the first decisions USCIS makes on petitions for initial and…Read More
This is a step by step instruction on how U.S. employers can sign up for a my.uscis.gov account and review the G-28 and H-1B registration prepared by their attorney. Click here video instructionsRead More
From USCIS.gov on 5/17/19. “USCIS has completed data entry for all fiscal year 2020 H-1B cap-subject petitions selected in our computer-generated random selection process, including those selected under the U.S. advanced degree exemption. As in previous years, we will now begin returning all H-1B cap-subject petitions that we did not select and will issue an announcement once we are done notifying petitioners.…Read More
USCIS may change the below without public notice. You must check the USCIS.gov website for the most accurate and up-to-date service center locations for filing H-1B petitions (https://www.uscis.gov/i-129-addresses). The below is only current as of the date of this posting – 9/4/2019. California Service Center Filings File Form I-129 with the CSC if the petitioner’s primary office is located in:…Read More
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