On April 6, 2018, 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 2019 (October 1, 2018, through September 30, 2019). No new cap-subject H-1B […]
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UNITED KINGDOM – Tier 2 (General) Work Visa Scheme Oversubscribed for Second Consecutive Month
22 Feb
by Foster LLP, on Immigration Updates
The Tier 2 (General) visa scheme is a points-based system for skilled employees who do not qualify as an intra company transferee. After the Tier 2 (General) quota first overdrew in December 2017, the quota was once again oversubscribed in January 2018. Under the Tier 2 scheme, the government allocates […]
By Liz Robbins, The New York Times A Flatiron district artificial intelligence start-up was recently looking to expand, adding new engineers who happened to know a niche computer language. The people it hired hail from Morocco, Belarus, France, Georgia and Canada. But they are not working in New York. They […]
Without New Laws or Walls, Trump Presses the Brake on Legal Immigration
20 Dec
by Foster LLP, on News
By Miriam Jordan, The New York Times The Cleveland Clinic has faced challenges securing visas for foreign-born specialists, one of many employers affected by President Trump’s tougher approach toward immigration. Credit T.J. Kirkpatrick for The New York Times A scientist recruited by the renowned Cleveland Clinic is stuck in India […]