H-1B Visas - Jewell Stewart Pratt Beckerson & Carr PC

Large increases in government filing fees for some H-1B and L-1 petitions

Aug 24, 2010

To make emergency supplemental appropriations for border security, Public Law 111-230 was passed by Congress and it was signed into law by President Obama on August 13, 2010. One provision of the new law, effective immediately, adds large supplemental filing fees to certain H-1B and L-1 petition filings. USCIS clarified in a recent announcement that it will require the supplemental fee for petitions postmarked on or after August 14, 2010. The supplemental fees will remain in effect through September 30, 2014.

H and L fee increases

Aug 13, 2010

News Release from Jewell & Associates, PC – August 13, 2010 On 8/13/2010, President Obama signed into law H.R. 6080, an act making emergency supplemental appropriations for border security. One provision of the act raises the filing fee and Anti-Fraud fee for H...

Companies’ H-1B wages available online

May 6, 2010

News Release from Jewell & Associates, PC - May 6, 2010 All H-1B petitions are supported by a Labor Condition Application (LCA), on which the employer attests to the wage to be paid to the H-1B employee. The same is true for H-1B1 and E-3 visas. The LCA does not...

Worldwide Deployment of Form DS-160 for Nonimmigrant Visa Applications

Feb 24, 2010

News Release from Jewell & Associates, PC - February 23, 2010 As part of the Stare Department’s ongoing modernization of the visa application process, it is deploying the DS-160 fully web-based nonimmigrant visa (NIV) application form worldwide. The DS-160 has...

H-1B Cap for FY2011 (10/1/2010 through 9/30/2011)

Jan 30, 2010

News Release from Jewell & Associates, PC - January 29, 2010 Congress has established an annual H-1B cap of 65,000. Of that number, 6,800 are set aside for the H-1B1 program under terms of the U.S.-Chile and U.S.-Singapore Free Trade Agreements. The total H-1B cap...

“Neufeld Memo” of 1/8/2010 on Employer-Employee Relationship

Jan 14, 2010

News Release from Jewell & Associates, PC - January 13, 2010 On January 8, 2010, USCIS’s Associate Director, Service Center Operations, Donald Neufeld, issued a memo making additions to the Adjudicator’s Field Manual (AFM), the manual used by USCIS officers in...

H-1B Cap Is Reached for FY2010

Dec 22, 2009

News Release from Jewell & Associates, PC - December 22, 2009 On Tuesday, December 22, 2009, USCIS announced that the H-1B cap was reached. All cap-subject H-1B petitions received at USCIS before Monday, December 21st “made the cap.” Cap-subject H-1B petitions...

H-1B Cap Update for FY2010

Dec 17, 2009

News Release from Jewell & Associates, PC - December 17, 2009 As of Tuesday, December 15, 2009, approximately 84,200 H-1B cap-subject petitions had been received and counted towards the H-1B cap. This means that only 100 H-1Bs were still available as of...

H-1B Cap Update for FY2010

Dec 5, 2009

News Release from Jewell & Associates, PC - December 4, 2009 As of Friday, December 4, 2009, approximately 81,100 H-1B cap-subject petitions had been received and counted towards the H-1B cap. This means that 3,200 H-1Bs are still available. If the recent rate...