Serotte Reich, LLP – Immigration Law

The Department of State (DOS) announced that the EB-3 category has become unavailable for all nationalities for the rest of the fiscal year. The cut-off dates for the EB-3 categories were previously retrogressed in an effort to bring demand within the average monthly usage targets and the overall annual numerical limits. Despite these efforts, the […]Read More >

CIS announced that it continues to accept H-1B nonimmigrant visa petitions subject to the fiscal year 2010 cap. CIS will continue to monitor the number of H-1B petitions received for both the 65,000 regular cap and the 20,000 U.S. master’s degree or higher educational exemption cap. CIS announced that it received approximately 42,000 H-1B petitions […]Read More >

SRW partners William Reich and Andrew Wilson recently attended the AILA Spring Conference in Washington, D.C. The DOL announced at this conference that they are working on PERM cases with Priority Dates (initial case filing dates) in the following queues: No Audit: July 2008 Audit: September 2007 Appeal: June 2007 Our office has received PERM […]Read More >

AILA liaison has provided updated information on the H-1B cap lottery system for this year’s filings. (See AILA InfoNet Doc. No. 09032560) USCIS has confirmed that if it determines that they have received a sufficient number of cases in the first five business days of April to reach the cap, then the “lottery” will be […]Read More >

AILA has received reports from several members that the TSC has begun issuing NTAs to out-of-status beneficiaries after the approval of an I-140 petition filed for the alien. This includes those who are eligible to adjust under INA §245(i), but who have not, or cannot, file to adjust status due to category backlogs. The cases […]Read More >