U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced on March 30, 2021 that it has received a sufficient number of H-1B petitions to reach the statutory H-1B visa “cap” for fiscal year (FY) 2022. The USCIS announcement states:We randomly selected from...
Last updated: 02/05/2021On February 4, 2021, USCIS announced that the upcoming H-1B cap registration selection process will be via random lottery, as in prior years. USCIS had previously announced a wage-based selection process. Today’s announcement stated that “to...
On October 28, 2020, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced a notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) that would change the way cap-subject H-1B petitions are processed. The announced change would, in years when demand for new H-1B visas exceeds the annual...
As we mentioned in our prior post, on September 30, 2020, Congress passed a continuing resolution to fund the government through December 11, 2020, and the president signed it into law. The continuing resolution contains certain changes to USCIS’s Premium Processing...
On September 30, 2020, Congress passed a continuing resolution to fund the government through December 11, 2020, and the president is expected to sign it into law. The continuing resolution contains certain changes to USCIS’s Premium Processing Service or “PPS,”...
On September 24, 2020, the Department of State issued its first Visa Bulletin of the new Fiscal Year for October 2020. USCIS then announced that it is accepting the Dates for Filing Chart for October filings. EB-1, EB-2, and EB-3 “All Other” are all current for...
09/29/2020 update:On September 29, 2020, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California granted the motion for a preliminary injunction (“PI”) filed by eight nonprofit organizations in the ongoing Fee Rule litigation. The PI has a nationwide effect...
November 5, 2020 update:On Wednesday, November 4, 2020, the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeal stayed the lower court’s order. Therefore Public Charge is back in effect for now. November 3, 2020 update:On Monday, November 2, 2020, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern...
On May 29, 2020, USCIS announced that it would resume its Premium Processing Service (“PPS”) in these stages throughout the month of June:
June 1, 2020: all eligible I-140 petitions
June 8, 2020: I-129 petitions that were filed/receipted before June 8, excluding H-1B “cap” cases (i.e., PPS “upgrades” will be available for non-H “cap” cases filed/receipted before June 8)
June 15, 2020: concurrent filings for H-1B cap-exempt filings
June 22, 2020: H-1B “cap” filings and cases filed/receipted after June 8
These dates are subject to change.
