USCIS announced that it received over 236,000 H-1B Cap Petitions which exceeds the statutory H-1B cap for fiscal year (FY) 2017. This is 3,000 more H-1B Cap Petitions than USCIS received last year.
On April 9th, USCIS conducted a computer-generated lottery and has started sending out receipt notices for cases filed under premium processing. USCIS […]
The Department of Labor (DOL) has published a notice in the Federal Register indicating that it intends to request public comments on potential changes to the Schedule A labor certification program. Under that program as it currently exists, nurses and physical therapists are exempted from the labor market test that is normally required for […]
On Thursday, April 7th, 2016 USCIS announced that the FY 2017 H-1B numerical cap was reached for both the U.S. advanced degree program and the general H-1B lottery. We expect that USCIS will run the lottery this coming week and shortly thereafter notify the public on the number of actual H-1B Petitions received.
USCIS will […]