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 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…
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…
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…
DHS issued an Interim Final Rule (IFR) regarding the H-1B visa program. The rule now restricts the program in several ways, including revising the definition of…
Earlier this month, a federal judge in North Carolina ruled that USCIS erred in denying an H-1B petition based on its finding that an engineering position did…
February 14, USCIS announced that it will not use pre-paid mailers to send out communication or final notices for FY 2021 cap-subject H-1B petitions. This includes communication…
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…