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USCIS Announces Second H-1B Lottery for FY 2025: 4 Points for Employers

Fisher Phillips on 7/31/2024

Federal immigration officials just announced yesterday that they are gearing up to conduct a second round of H-1B selections to ensure all slots for the FY 2025 cap are filled. If you receive new selections, you will be...more

Looking for an Alternative to the H-1B Visa Lottery? Consider These 8 Options for Employing Foreign Nationals

Fisher Phillips on 6/13/2024

Missing out on the H-1B visa lottery can be disheartening, but it’s not necessarily the end of the road. If you employ foreign nationals, the good news is that you can explore certain short-term, long-term, and even some...more

[Webinar] Preparing for the H-1B Lottery: What We Know & Tips for Success - December 20th, 12:00 pm CT

Mitratech Holdings, Inc on 12/15/2023

The H-1B Visa 2024 filing season is right around the corner. Are you prepared? This expert webinar will ensure you’re ready. H-1B season is upon us, and with only a few short months left to file, now is a crucial time to...more

USCIS Reaches H-1B Cap: Consider These Alternatives for Hiring Foreign Nationals

Fisher Phillips on 12/15/2023

Federal immigration officials announced on December 13 that the H-1B cap has been reached for FY 2024. Although you most likely expected the announcement, the finality inevitably leaves many employers and foreign national...more

DHS Issues Proposed Rule to Modernize the H-1B Specialty Occupation Worker Program

Littler on 11/8/2023

On October 23, 2023, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) released a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM), which the agency indicates will modernize and improve the H-1B specialty occupation worker program. DHS states...more

Didn’t Make the H-1B Cap? Planning, Not Practice, Makes Perfect: 8 More Ways to Employ Foreign Nationals

Fisher Phillips on 9/19/2022

If you employ foreign nationals, you likely know that the federal government already reached the H-1B visa cap for the fiscal year and informed registrants who were not selected. Although employers expected the August 23...more

H-1B Visa Lottery Deadlines Approaching

Akerman LLP - HR Defense on 2/8/2022

Last week, USCIS announced the H-1B visa cap registration deadlines for FY2023. Registration is mandatory for most employers wishing to sponsor a candidate for an H-1B visa in the FY2023 H-1B cap cycle. Registration is an...more

Law Brief: H-1B Visas – New Process and New (Upcoming) Deadlines

Tarter Krinsky & Drogin LLP on 8/31/2020

Immigration partner Roxanne Levine joined Litigation partner and host Rich Schoenstein to discuss the new filing process for H-1B visas, which provide a nonimmigrant temporary visa category for certain foreign nationals that...more

H-1B Cap Season

Polsinelli on 2/5/2020

USCIS has confirmed they will open the new H-1B Lottery pre-registration portal on March 1, 2020. The H-1B visa is available to companies wishing to hire a foreign worker to fill a “specialty occupation” which is defined as a...more

H-1B Lottery Registration - New Process

Snell & Wilmer on 1/23/2020

United States Citizenship and Immigration Service (USCIS) has implemented a new process for the annual H-1B lottery. Employers wishing to file H-1B cap-subject petitions with a start date of October 1, 2020, must first submit...more

Immigration Prepares for H-1B Cap Season

Jackson Walker on 1/16/2020

The H-1B Specialty Occupation Visa allows companies to sponsor foreign national workers for jobs that normally require at least a bachelor’s degree or its equivalent in a specific field. The H-1B work visa is the most...more

USCIS Drastically Changes H-1B Cap Processing

Fisher Phillips on 12/12/2019

For the first time ever, federal immigration authorities will be implementing an electronic registration system for H-1B petitions that is intended to simplify the annual process. In a December 6 announcement, U.S....more

Department of Homeland Security Establishes New H-1B Electronic Registration Process for Employers

Ballard Spahr LLP on 12/10/2019

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and its U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced on December 6 that it is implementing an electronic registration process in the next H-1B lottery. ...more

It’s H-1B Cap Season and the Tech Corridor is Full of Anxious Skilled Workers

Harris Beach PLLC on 4/8/2019

It's March and here we are in the middle of another H-1B cap season. So I did what I do almost every day this time of year: I got up to head in to the office. But first I went for a run to clear my head. It is Saturday. It is...more

H-1B Cap Season is Here. Is Your Company Ready?

UB Greensfelder LLP on 3/20/2019

Yesterday, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced the start of the fiscal year (FY) 2020 cap season, the start dates for premium processing of cap-subject H-1B petitions, and the launch of USCIS’s new...more

H-1B Visa Filing Deadline: April 1, 2018

Holland & Knight LLP on 2/13/2018

New H-1B visa petitions for Fiscal Year (FY) 2019, which begins Oct. 1, 2018, will be accepted for filing starting on April 1, 2018, which means employers should have their H-1B visa petitions ready to be sent to U.S....more

H-1B Cap: Start Planning Today for "Buy American, Hire American"

Proskauer Rose LLP on 12/22/2017

Although we are still officially in the year 2017, it is a good time for employers to start preparing for the H-1B Cap for Fiscal Year 2019 (FY2019). H-1B cases must be filed between April 2, 2018 and April 7, 2018 to be...more

New DHS Rule Extends H-1B Cap Exemptions

Burr & Forman on 1/30/2017

One of the biggest drawbacks for employers trying to utilize the H-1B visa program is the numerical cap. The current law limits the number of H-1B visas available to 65,000 annually with an additional 20,000 available to...more

H-1B Cap Season - It's Time to Prepare for April 2017

Tarter Krinsky & Drogin LLP on 1/5/2017

On April 3, 2017, the filing period will begin for new H-1B petitions to be counted against the annual H-1B quota (H-1B cap) for the fiscal year beginning October 1, 2017. We strongly encourage employers to begin determining...more

Annual H-1B Visa Quota Available But Expected to Be Exhausted in Early April

Franczek P.C. on 1/28/2015

On April 1, 2015, the United States Customs and Immigration Services (USCIS) will begin accepting petitions for H-1B visas that are subject to annual quotas for the 2016 fiscal year (which would allow employees to start...more

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