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...
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...
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...
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...
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 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...
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...
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...
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....
