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Immigration Procedures Visa Caps Final Rules

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Employers: Planning for the Fiscal Year 2025 H-1B Cap and Registration Process Begins Now - Changes in Effect

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Employers with candidates who require initial H-1B employment authorization should plan to submit a registration for those candidates when the H-1B electronic registration period opens on March 6, 2024. The electronic...more

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USCIS Announces FY 2025 H-1B Cap Registration Details and Updates

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Seyfarth Synopsis: U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) issued a final rule on the upcoming H-1B cap registration, creating a beneficiary-centric selection process, starting this FY 2025 H-1B cap registration...more

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USCIS Takes First Step Toward Modernization of the H-1B Program

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The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has announced a final rule to enhance and modernize the H-1B program, which provides work authorization to foreign nationals who are offered U.S. positions that, in part,...more

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Show Me the Money! Increased USCIS Fees Effective April 1, 2024

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The Department of Homeland Security (“DHS”) published a final rule adjusting the fees to file certain immigration applications with U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (“USCIS”). The new fees go into effect on April 1,...more

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Immigration Alert: USCIS Announces H-1B Cap Registration Dates and Significant Fee Increases

United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) made several noteworthy announcements this week regarding H-1B cap registration timing, the expansion of online filings, and fee increases for immigration and...more

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Proposed Rulemaking on H-1B Modernization

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On October 23, 2023, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) issued its long-anticipated notice of proposed rulemaking on modernizing the H-1B program. The purpose is to amend regulations governing H–1B specialty occupation...more

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DHS Finalizes H-1B Cap Registration Fee

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security published a final rule that will require employers to pay a $10 non-refundable fee for each H-1B cap registration submitted, once the electronic registration system is implemented....more

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DHS Finalizes H-1B Registration Fee for FY 2021 Cap Season

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has finalized plans to charge employers a $10 registration fee for each H-1B petition they submit for registration in the agency’s new electronic H-1B registration system. The...more

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Changes to the H-1B Program Are Coming

On January 31, 2019, the Department of Homeland Security announced two major changes to the H-1B program. Under the final rule, which takes effect April 1, 2019, employers seeking to file H-1B petitions will now be required...more

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H-1B Regulatory Changes Scheduled to be Effective April 1, 2019/ Confirmed Delay in Changes to H-1B Cap Pre-Registration Process

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The Department of Homeland Security has announced that the proposed regulations making fundamental changes to the H-1B cap-selection process have been finalized and will be published in the Federal Register on January 31,...more

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