United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has announced that within 5 days of accepting applications, the cap of 65,000 H-1B petitions and 20,000 graduates of U.S. advanced degree programs have been reached for fiscal year 2014. Because of the high number of applications...
Category: H-1B Visa
THE H-1B SEASON IS UPON US AGAIN.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - February 10th, 2014 -
On April 1, 2013, the U.S Department of Homeland Security's (DHS), Citizen and Immigration Services (CIS) will start accepting H-1B petitions. H-1B visas are for nonimmigrants who...
THE NEUFELD MEMO REVISITED AND THE H-1B VISA CLIMATE: The New Face of Enforcement in the H-1B World, Part II
This is the concluding part of a series of articles on the Neufeld Memo, published on January 8, 2010, which radically changed the way that H-1B's were adjudicated. The Neufeld Memo put enormous pressure on employers to satisfy additional evidence requirements justifying any work...
THE NEUFELD MEMO REVISITED AND THE H-1B VISA CLIMATE: The New Face of Enforcement in the H-1B World, Part I
For the past few months, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Citizenship and Immigration Services ("CIS") has conducted an investigation program aimed at visiting H-1B petitioner worksites throughout the U.S. These site visits began as part of the CIS' goal to decrease the number...
THE NEUFELD MEMO REVISITED AND THE H-1B VISA CLIMATE: The New Face of Enforcement in the H-1B World, Part III
As a result of increased site visits and a general inclination to decrease the number of H-1B's approved, the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services ("USCIS") published a watershed memo on January 8th, 2010 ("the Neufeld Memo"). The Neufeld Memo radically changed the way that...
THE NEUFELD MEMO REVISITED AND THE H-1B VISA CLIMATE: The New Face of Enforcement in the H-1B World.
The U.S. Department of Labor has promulgated a helpful guide for employers about the H-1B nonimmigrant visa process.
The Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) as amended created the H-1B classification for temporary employment of...
The 2011-2012 H-1B Season . . . Any Lottery Hype?
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services ("USCIS") still has slots available in fiscal year 2012 for foreign workers in specialty occupations under the H-1B program.
Thus, employers who seek an employment start date on or after...
THE NEUFELD MEMO CAN CHANGE THE WHOLE H-1B PROFESSIONAL AND SPECIALTY OCCUPATION VISA LANDSCAPE IN THE UNITED STATES.
Article by Patrick Thibodeau
Computerworld - The U.S. Department of Labor is alleging that a Newark, N.J., software company, Peri Software Solutions Inc., underpaid its tech workers on H-1B visas and owes some $1.45 million...
USCIS Announces that the H-1B Cap for FY2010 Has Been Reached.
The AILA U.S. Customs and Border Protection ("CBP") Liaison Committee received reports from AILA members that CBP inspectors at the Newark, New Jersey airport port of entry were apparently assisting in an investigation involving certain H-1B nonimmigrants from India and certain H-1B petitioner companies....