Immigration

  Allegations of fraud and abuse accompanied the recently published U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) statistics from the Fiscal Year 2024 H-1B Cap Lottery Registration System. The system is used to allocate the annual H-1B visa quota, known as the “cap,” due to perennial excess demand or “oversubscription.”     As […]

On Monday, March 27, 2023, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced that the agency had completed the random numeric selection process (lottery) for allocating H-1B numbers among the properly submitted registrations under both the H-1B Regular Cap and H-1B U.S. Master’s Cap.  USCIS has also now completed the process […]

U.S. Citizenship & Immigration Services (USCIS) recently announced that the initial registration period for the fiscal year (FY) 2024 H-1B cap will open at noon ET on March 1, 2023, and run through noon ET on March 17, 2023. Once the registration period has closed, USCIS will apply random numeric […]

The U.S. Department of State (DOS) has published the Monthly Visa Bulletin for March 2023, revealing movement in only three of the most used categories of Final Action Dates. Dates for Filing and Final Action Dates remain current in the EB-1 category for all countries of birth except China and India, […]