Posted on January 18, 2020 by Brian D. Lerner, Immigration Lawyer & Deportation Attorney
On January 9, USCIS announced that its electronic H-1B registration system has been implemented and will be used for fiscal year 2021 H-1B petitions. USCIS will open registration from March 1 through March 20, 2020. Online registration requires a $10 fee and is not a full application. Registrations will be randomly chosen no later than March 31, and once chosen, a petitioner will need to fill out their H-1B petition
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Posted on December 10, 2019 by Brian D. Lerner, Immigration Lawyer & Deportation Attorney
USCIS announced online registration for the H-1B lottery. On December 6, USCIS announced that registration for the 2021 H-1B lottery will take place online. Employers who want to file cap-subject petitions must register online and pay the $10 registration fee. Employers will only need to give basic information on both the employer and requested worker. If selected by the lottery, the employer will then file a full petition. The initial registration period will be from March 1 through March 20, 2020.
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Posted on September 10, 2019 by Brian D. Lerner, Immigration Lawyer & Deportation Attorney
DOL’s Office of Foreign Labor Certification (OFLC) announced that beginning September 16, 2019, stakeholders can prepare Labor Condition Applications (LCAs) for H‑1B, H‑1B1, and E‑3 visas in the FLAG System. The system will not permit submission of LCAs until 12:00 pm (ET) on October 1, 2019, and OFLC will accept submissions through iCERT until then. OFLC will post instructional videos on preparing LCAs using FLAG this Friday, September 13, 2019, and will host a webinar on the topic next Wednesday, September 18, 2019.
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Posted on August 20, 2019 by Brian D. Lerner, Immigration Lawyer & Deportation Attorney
The U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia ordered USCIS to change the plaintiff’s status to H‑1B nonimmigrant after rejecting USCIS decision that Relx, Inc. d/b/a/ LexisNexis had not shown that the data analyst position was a specialty occupation.
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Posted on August 20, 2019 by Brian D. Lerner, Immigration Lawyer & Deportation Attorney
USCIS announced that it has returned all FY2020 H‑1B cap-subject petitions that were not selected in the lottery. Petitioners who haven’t received a receipt notice or a returned petition for a cap-subject H‑1B petition by August 29, 2019, should contact USCIS for assistance.
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Posted on April 15, 2019 by Brian D. Lerner, Immigration Lawyer & Deportation Attorney
The American Immigration Council filed suit on behalf of a company that provides amenity services to seniors, their families, and their senior communities to challenge USCIS’s “not a specialty occupation” denial of an H-1B petition.
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Posted on April 15, 2019 by Brian D. Lerner, Immigration Lawyer & Deportation Attorney
USCIS announced that it had once again received more than enough H‑1B petitions within the first five business days of the FY2020 filing period to reach the annual cap of 85,000 new H‑1B visas. The agency received 201,011 petitions, an increase from last year’s total of 190,098.
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Posted on March 12, 2019 by Brian D. Lerner, Immigration Lawyer & Deportation Attorney
USCIS will accept new H‑1B petitions subject to the annual quota for FY2020 starting on April 1, 2019
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Posted on February 26, 2019 by Brian D. Lerner, Immigration Lawyer & Deportation Attorney
USCIS announced that it will resume premium processing on February 19, 2019, for all H‑1B petitions filed on or before December 21, 2018. For pending H‑1Bs that have been transferred, a premium processing request must be submitted to the service center now handling the petition.
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Posted on January 28, 2019 by Brian D. Lerner, Immigration Lawyer & Deportation Attorney
USCIS announced that it will resume premium processing on Monday, January 28, 2019, for all FY2019 H‑1B cap petitions, including those eligible for the advanced degree exemption (the “master’s cap”). The previously announced temporary suspension of premium processing remains in effect for all other categories of H‑1B petitions to which it applied.
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