On April 7, 2016, 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 2017 (October 1, 2016, through September 30, 2017). No new cap-subject H-1B […]
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CIS Redistributes L-1 and H-1B Workload Between Service Centers
30 Mar
by Foster, on Immigration Updates
U.S. Citizenship & Immigration Services (CIS) has announced that the Vermont Service Center will be transferring some L-1 petitions, L-2 extension applications, and L-2 employment authorization applications to the California Service Center. The Vermont Service Center is also transferring some H-1B petitions and H-4 dependent applications and H-4 EAD applications […]
On April 1, U.S. Citizenship & Immigration Services (USCIS) will begin accepting new H-1B petitions from foreign nationals to fill “specialty occupation” positions. USCIS typically receives far more than 85,000 H-1B petitions during the first five business days of April. During the first five days of filing in 2015, USCIS […]
WASHINGTON — Efforts by the Obama administration to clamp down on convicted criminals living illegally in the United States resulted in a higher percentage of them being deported in 2015, according to figures released by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) on Tuesday. For the fiscal year that ended on […]