H-1B Visa

• USCIS has reached a settlement with the business group ITServe Alliance. As a result, 10 years of policies restricting H-1B visa holders and employers is now overturned.

• Back on January 8, 2010, "USCIS began with the “Neufeld” memo issued on January 8, 2010. In that memo, USCIS asserted the authority to deny H-1B petitions based on a potentially restrictive understanding of what constituted an “employer-employee” relationship, including when an H-1B visa holder performed work at a customer’s location," writes Anderson.
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• Foreign nationals on H-1B visas make it more likely U.S. workers will be employed, have better wage growth and other benefits, writes Stuart Anderson.


• Madeline Zavodny, an economic professor at the University of North Florida in Jacksonville, led a study on behalf of the National Foundation for American Policy, and found that "H-1B visa holders do not adversely affect U.S. workers."
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MUMBAI:  Immigration attorneys are inundated with queries from their clients, owing to the various intricate issues related to their H-1B employees.

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USCIS has received enough electronic registrations during the initial period to reach the FY 2021 H-1B numerical allocations
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In response to the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services announced today that it is adopting measures to minimize the immigration consequences associated with responding to requests for evidence (RFEs) and notices of intent to deny (NOIDs) dated between March 1 and May 1, 2020.
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Updates on the H-1B Lottery Registration results for those Registrations filed between March 1st and March 20th.

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Last year USCIS received approximately 201,011 H-1B petitions for the fiscal year 2020. Once the random selection process (if a sufficient number of registrations are received) has been completed
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The initial electronic registration period for the fiscal year 2021 H-1B numerical allocations will close at noon Eastern on March 20. Registrations must be properly submitted before noon Eastern on March 20 to be considered in the initial selection process.
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As per the new changes implemented for the fiscal year 2021 H-1B cap, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services has opened the initial registration period from March 1 through March 20, 2020. During this period employers seeking to file H-1B cap-subject petitions, including those eligible for the advanced degree exemption, to first electronically register and pay the associated $10.00 H-1B registration fee before filing a petition for the fiscal year 2021 H-1B cap.
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Many F-1 visa holders, particularly those who are engaged in OPT change their immigration status to become professional and specialty workers (H-1B workers).
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Due to long processing times, since 2014 companies have been forced to pay $2.4 billion in “premium processing” fees to ensure their business immigration cases are decided within a reasonable time. Critics say U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has no incentive to process cases faster because the more time it takes, the greater the revenue the agency receives in additional premium processing fees.

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