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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 [...]
H-1B Visas Continue to be Available
The U.S. Citizenship & Immigration Services (USCIS) reported recently that H-1B visas for Fiscal Year (FY) 2010 continue to be available.
As of August 28, 2009, about 45,100 H-1B applications subject to this fiscal year’s annual numerical cap and about 20,000 applications subject to the advanced degree cap have been received. The USCIS will continue to accept both types of applications until they determine that enough H-1B applications have [...]
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 [...]
Clarification of Requirements for H-1B Aliens in Health Care
The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) recently sent a memo to the Directors of the US Citizenship & Immigration Services (USCIS) four (4) Service Centers clarifying the requirements for H-1B visa petitions where the applicant is seeking employment in a health care specialty occupation.
The clarification applies to H-1B visa applicants who have either an unrestricted or a restricted license to [...]
Update on Fiscal Year 2010 H-1B Petition Filings
The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced yesterday an update on the number of filings for H-1B petitions for the fiscal year 2010 program.
USCIS has received approximately 45,000 H-1B petitions counting toward the Congressionally mandated 65,000 cap.
We reported back on April 28, 2009 that there were 20,000 visas available. Surprisingly, the number of applications received by the USCIS [...]
