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U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has announced that the agency has completed the initial data entry for all FY-2020 H-1B petitions selected under both the FY-2020 H-1B Master’s and Regular Cap quotas, and the agency will now begin returning those petitions which were not selected in the lottery. Rejected […]
U.S. Citizenship & Immigration Services (USCIS) received more than 200,000 H-1B petitions this cap season. After running both the Regular Cap lottery and the U.S. Master’s Cap lottery, the USCIS has begun issuing receipt notices. If this year is like previous years, this process will continue into June, and it will […]
Stuart Anderson, Forbes U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has reversed itself by eliminating language from its website aimed at preventing international students in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) Optional Practical Training (OPT) from working for companies at third-party locations. The USCIS change may have been in response to […]
Law360 (July 27, 2018, 5:45 PM EDT) — The Trump administration has denied or questioned more visas for highly skilled immigrant workers since President Donald Trump signed his “Buy American and Hire American” executive order last year, a policy report released Wednesday has found. According to the nonpartisan National Foundation […]