On April 17, 2017, the U.S. Citizenship & Immigration Services (CIS) announced that the CIS received 199,000 FY-2017 H-1B petitions during the filing period from April 3 – 7, 2017. On April 11th, the CIS applied the required computer-generated random selection process (“lottery”) to select petitions under both the Master’s cap […]
Trump “Buy American, Hire American” Executive Order Targets H-1B Program Abuse
18 Apr
by Foster, on Immigration Updates
During his presidential campaign, then-candidate Donald J. Trump remarked on the H-1B program and perceived program abuses that involve the alleged use of lower-skilled and lower-wage foreign workers to replace U.S. workers in the job market. In the early days of his administration, a draft of an Executive Order targeting […]
THE NETHERLANDS: Implementation of ICT Directive May Actually Disadvantage Non-EEA/EU Intracompany Transferees
13 Apr
by Foster, on Immigration Updates
On November 29, 2016, the Netherlands implemented the ICT Directive, European Union (EU) Directive 2014/66. This directive streamlines ICT requirements across the EU and increases mobility for short-term projects in other EU Member States. However, the implementation of this directive to existing Dutch immigration laws may actually be less advantageous […]
On April 7, 2017, U.S. Citizenship & Immigration Services (CIS) announced that the CIS had received enough H-1B petitions to exhaust the 85,000 H-1B quota (which includes 20,000 set aside for U.S. advance degree holders) for Fiscal Year 2018 (October 1, 2017, through September 30, 2018). No new cap-subject H-1B […]