NPZ Immigration Law Blog

Last year USCIS announced earlier that it received approximately 190,098 H-1B petitions for the fiscal year 2018. Once the lottery (also referred as “random selection process”) has been completed USCIS starts to send receipt notices. With uncertainty looming large as to who may or may obtain an H-1B in the 2019-2020
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U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) today (3/19/2019) announced the start of the fiscal year (FY) 2020 H-1B cap season, start dates for premium processing of cap-subject H-1B petitions, and the launch of its new H-1B data hub, while reminding petitioners of its new H-1B cap selection process. These new efforts underscore the agency’s commitment to supporting President Trump’s Buy American and Hire American executive order designed to protect U.S. workers.
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David Nachman, Esq., advogado-sócio do escritório NPZ Law Group, diz que “para o novo ano fiscal há algumas grandes mudanças iminentes ao Programa de Loteria do Visto H-1B”. Os advogados especializados em Imigração e Nacionalidade do escritório Nachman Phulwani Zimovcak (NPZ) Law Group continuam a monitorar de perto as alterações que vêm sendo feitas na legislação.
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USCIS will resume premium processing on Tuesday, March 12, for all H-1B petitions. If you received a request for evidence (RFE) for a pending petition, you should include the RFE response with the premium processing request.
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Every year at about this time, U.S. Employers approach the Immigration and Nationality Lawyers and Immigration Attorneys at the NPZ Law Group often asking us for the reasons why they should consider doing the H-1B visa. Here are the TOP TEN REASONS we give to them. David Letterman, eat your heart out . . .
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On March 5th, 2019, USCIS made an announcement that it has revised Form I-539, Application to Extend/Change Nonimmigrant Status and will publish the revised form on USCIS website on March 8, 2019. USCIS will be removing the 12/23/16 version of Form I-539 from uscis.gov on March 8
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In the first week of April during the last several years the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (“USCIS”) announced that it has received a sufficient number of H-1B petitions to reach the statutory cap, both regular and master’s. Because of the surge of petitions filed,
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H1-Bビザ抽選登録初日は2019年4月1日、2019年４月５日まで登録サイトがあいているとのことですが、新規H1-Bビザ申請者はその前に会社情報などの初期事前登録が設けられ４月1日前に行える予定です。
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14 फरवरी, 2019 से प्रभावी, आव्रजन, शरणार्थी और नागरिकता कनाडा ("आईआरसीसी") ने पोस्ट-ग्रेजुएशन वर्क परमिट ("PGWP") कार्यक्रम को संशोधित किया। अब, PGWP के लिए आवेदन करने के 90 दिन पहले के विपरीत स्कूल द्वारा आवेदन करने के लिए अंतिम अंक जारी करने के समय से छात्रों के पास 180 दिन हैं । इन 180 दिनों के दौरान छात्रों के पास "कुछ बिंदु" पर एक वैध अध्ययन अनुमति होनी चाहिए। 14 फरवरी, 2019 से पहले प्राप्त सभी PGWP आवेदनों को पिछले दिशानिर्देशों के आधार पर ठहराया जाएगा।
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Effective February 14, 2019, the Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (“IRCC”) revised the Post-Graduation Work Permit (“PGWP”) program. Now, students have 180 days from the time the school issues final marks to apply for PGWP, in contrast to 90 days earlier.
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O primeiro dia para protocolar este ano o pedido de um novo visto H-1B é 1º de abril, uma segunda-feira. A lei exige que o governo esteja aberto para receber esses pedidos por cinco dias úteis, ou seja, até a sexta-feira 5 de abril. Assim sendo, é imperativo que as novas solicitações do visto H-1B sejam protocoladas entre 1º e 5 de abril de 2019.
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