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 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 [...]

The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced yesterday that it has received approximately 44,000 H-1B petitions towards the Congressionally mandated 65,000 cap. The USCIS will continue to accept petitions subject to the general cap. Historically, the general H-1B visa cap has been reached within the first one to two days of the application period.  However, last year, the USCIS kept [...]