As part of the Obama administration’s efforts to attract high-skilled workers, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) plans to propose extending the availability of employment authorization to certain H-4 dependent spouses of principal H-1B nonimmigrants. The extension would be limited to H-4 dependent spouses of principal H-1B nonimmigrants who are seeking lawful permanent resident status […]Read More >
In an email sent to stakeholders on May 2, 2014, USCIS announced that it has completed its data entry for all of the Fiscal Year 2015 H-1B cap petitions selected under the lottery process. USCIS will now start to return the petitions that were not selected in the lottery.Read More >
Starting May 5, 2014, USCIS will only accept the new version of the N-400, Application for Naturalization. See USCIS’ Alert. The new N-400 form is dated September 13, 2013, and can be found at USCIS’ website. The government will reject any applications using older N-400 forms after May 4, 2014.Read More >
USCIS will begin premium processing for H-1B petitions subject to the fiscal year 2015 cap on April 28, 2014. This will include H-1B petitions seeking an exemption from the fiscal year cap for individuals who have earned a U.S. master’s degree or higher. USCIS first announced that premium processing for H-1B cap cases would begin […]Read More >
USCIS announced that they received about 172,500 H-1B petitions during the filing period. Today they completed the lottery process to select enough petitions to meet the general category cap of 65,000 and the advance degree exemption cap of 20,000. USCIS will reject and return cap-subject petitions along with the filing fees that were not randomly […]Read More >
