The U.S. Citizenship & Immigration Services (USCIS) reported last week that it has issued additional guidance for businesses who received funding under the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) in connection with their application to petition potential employees for an H-1B visa. Recipients of TARP funding are automatically deemed an H-1B dependent employer.   As such, those businesses are [...]

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 and Immigration Services (USCIS) recently announced additional requirements for employers who have received funds through the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) or under Section 13 of the Federal Reserve Act before hiring a foreign national to work in the H-1B specialty occupation category. On February 17, 2009, the Employ American Workers Act (EAWA) was signed into [...]