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H-1B Visa Cap Has Been Reached
The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced today that it has received enough H-1B visa applications to reach the Congressionally mandated cap of 65,000 for Fiscal Year (FY) 2010.
The USCIS has determined that December 21, 2009 was the final receipt date for new H-1B visa applications filed by employers requesting a start date in FY 2010.
The final receipt date is the date that the [...]
H-1B Visas Still Available, But Starting to Run Low
The U.S. Citizenship & Immigration Services  (USCIS) reported today that as of November 6, 2009, about 54,700 H-1B applications subject to the annual quota of 65,000 have been submitted.
The USCIS has already enough H-1B applications under the advanced degree cap of 20,000 visas for foreign nationals who have Masters or Ph.D. degrees.
All other H-1B applications submitted including applications where foreign nationals have advanced degrees will now count toward the general H-1B cap of 65,000.Â
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USCIS Accepting H-1B Visa Applications Without Certified LCA’s
The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services  (USCIS) has announced that it will accept H-1B petitions filed without Labor Condition Applications (LCA’s) that have been certified by the U.S. Department of Labor (USDOL) for a period of 120 days (4 months).
The temporary change in policy is due to the USCIS having received requests from the public to accept H-1B petition filings that include LCA’s [...]
H-1B Visas Continue to be Available Despite Economic Slump
The Wall Street Journal on October 30th reported that despite the current economic downtrend, H-1B visas continue to be available.
Since 1990, when the H-1B program was implemented, companies of all sizes from Silicon Valley, Wall Street, and everyone else in between, have used this program to bring highly skilled foreign workers such as computer programmers from India or engineers from China to the [...]
USCIS Issues Additional Guidance to Employers Petitioning for Health Care Specialty Occupation Workers
The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) issued a Press Release recently containing additional guidance to certain employers who received a denial of Form I-129 (Petition for Non-Immigrant Worker) requesting H-1B classification for a beneficiary to practice in a health care specialty occupation before May 20, 2009.
If the H-1B visa petition was denied only on the basis that the beneficiary didn’t have a [...]
