Serotte Reich, LLP – Immigration Law

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 >

USCIS announced today that they have received enough H-1B petitions to reach the statutory cap for fiscal year (FY) 2015. USCIS has also received in excess of 20,000 H-1B petitions filed under the U.S. advanced degree exemption.Read More >

USCIS began accepting H-1B visa petitions on April 1, 2014 for fiscal year 2015. According to a recently published notice, USCIS has indicated that it expects the H-1B cap to be hit again during the first week of April.Read More >

The U.S. Department of State has announced changes in the issuance and admission dates for F, M and J Visas: • Initial F-1 & F-2 / M-1 & M-2 Visas – Individuals may now be issued these visas up to 120 days before the program start date as listed on their I-20s. However, these individuals […]Read More >

Andrew Wilson was recently quoted in a SHRM article titled, Prep Now for H-1B , as saying “you want to make sure you don’t have any prevailing wage determination issues, and if so, that you give yourself enough time to seek an alternate wage source to the Department of Labor’s (DOL) online wage data, such […]Read More >