Several hundred H-1B applicants filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia alleging that the H-1B cap registration rules and…
USCIS announced it will accept FY2021 H-1B cap-subject petitions that were rejected or closed solely because they requested a start date after October 1, 2021.…
USCIS has received enough electronic registrations during the initial registration period to reach the fiscal year (FY) 2022 H-1B cap including the advanced degree exemption (master’s…
The American Immigration Council and partners filed a lawsuit challenging USCIS’s arbitrary and capricious refusal to accept timely and properly filed H-1B petitions that are subject to…
USCIS published a final rule delaying until December 31, 2021, the effective date of its final rule creating a wage-based selection process for H-1B petitions, which was originally set…
An advance copy was made available of a USCIS final rule delaying until December 31, 2021, the effective date of the January 8, 2021, final rule creating a wage-based…
White House Chief of Staff Ron Klain issued a memorandum that directs, in part, that 1) all rules pending at the Federal Register that have not been published must…
On Jan. 7, USCIS announced the H-1B Selection final rule, which amended the regulations governing the process by which USCIS selects H-1B registrations for the…
USCIS announced that the initial registration period for the FY2022 H-1B cap will open at 12:00 noon (ET) on March 9, 2021, and run through 12:00…
USCIS published a final rule in the Federal Register creating a wage-based selection process for H-1B registrations. The regulatory text is the same as the text in the notice…
Be sure to get your papers in order and LCA completed so that the H-1B can be ready to be filed on April 1, 2021 for starting date on October 1, 2121. It will be a mad rush to get the alloted assignments.
Finding that defendants “failed to show there was good cause to dispense with the rational and thoughtful discourse that is provided by the APA’s notice…