At the American Immigration Lawyers Association Conference today, we heard updates about the increased H1B visa RFE’s and rate of denials. As the practice of H1B filings will continue to become more complex, it is important to know how to file and document H1B cases in specific occupations to increase…
So the H1B season is over, faster than expected. But what occupations were the most popular this H1B season, how many Computers Programmers, Engineers, Consultants, etc were filed this past few months? The Labor Department provided statistics as to the number of Labor Condition Applications (LCA) filed this season. LCA…
Bad news, but it is official. The annual H-1B cap has been reached for this year, according to the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, and at a pace that is several months ahead of last year. The U.S. issues 85,000 H-1B visas each year under its cap, with 20,000 of…
We have been following the E2 visa Bill for Israel for months, well the wait is over. President Obama, today, signed into law legislation making Israelis eligible for two-year investor visas. The legislation from Rep. Howard Berman (D-Calif.) cleared the House and Senate without objection. Israel is already one of…
Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin drew public ire last month following the revelation that he had renounced his U.S. citizenship, a move widely seen as a tax dodge. But thousands of wealthy foreigners are lining up to replace him, making investments here and putting themselves on a path to citizenship in…
Brenda Vazquez is a 29-year-old elementary school teacher in Matamoros, Mexico. Laura Castro lives across the border in Brownsville, Texas. She is a 32-year-old housewife who helps her husband manage several stores. They share one thing in common: Both say they were delivered by midwives in south Texas, but pressured…
A great update from AILA, the pace of filing cap-subject petitions increases as USCIS closes in on reaching the H1B cap. The week of May 7, it was receiving an average of 840 per day . The next week it was 1060, the next week 1280, and the week of…
So the race is on, only a few days left for the H1B cap to be reached. USCIS has received approximately 55,600 H-1B petitions subject to regular-cap (for bachelor’s degree holders) and 18,700 H-1B petitions subject to master-cap (for U.S. advanced degree holders). Therefore, there are about 9,400 spots available…
According to Michael Barone’s Examiner column today about immigration brings to mind interesting points. Michael concludes: My prediction is that we won’t ever again see the heavy Latin immigration we saw between 1983 and 2007, which averaged 300,000 legal immigrants and perhaps as many illegals annually. Mexican and other Latin…
The Justice Department announced today that it filed a lawsuit against Tuscany Hotel and Casino LLC in Las Vegas, alleging that the company engaged in a pattern or practice of discrimination in the employment eligibility verification and re-verification process. The Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) requires employers to treat all…