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How to Adjust Your Status If you want to adjust your status and become a U.S. permanent resident under a family-sponsored or employment-based visa, you must first have a relative or employer file an immigrant visa petition on your behalf. Then, USCIS… Read More

May Visa Bulletin Available U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) released the May 2019 visa bulletin. Understanding the Visa Backlogs A limited number of employment-based immigrant visas (“green cards”) are available each year, and t… Read More

On April 5, 2019, USCIS announced that they had reached the 65,000 H-1B visa regular cap for FY2020. On April 10, 2019, they reached the 20,000 H-1B advanced degree exemption, or master’s cap. USCIS received 201,011 H-1B petitions during the fi… Read More

On February 14, 2019, the CIS Ombudsman Office held a teleconference pertaining to changes in the USCIS applicant support services. The initiative to change the way USCIS provides support services to applicants is called the Information Services Mode… Read More

USCIS announced last week that they received all of the H-1B petitions that they needed to reach the 65,000 H-1B visa regular cap for fiscal year 2020. They will next determine if they have enough petitions to meet the 20,000 H-1B visa U.S. advanced… Read More

A Two-Phased Approach On May 20, 2019, USCIS will start premium processing for FY2020 cap-subject H-1B petitions that are requesting a change of status on Form I-129 and that filed Form I-907, the request for premium processing service, with the H-1B… Read More

On March 15, 2019, the Department of Labor issued a Field Assistance Bulletin that explains obligations of H-1B petitioners when using electronic posting. Background Employers that aim to employ H-1B non-immigrant workers, or H-1B petitioners must co… Read More

AILA’s Department of State (DOS) Liaison Committee checks in each month with Charlie Oppenheim, the Chief of the Visa Control and Reporting Division at DOS for updates about Visa Bulletin progress. Oppenheim also provides analysis of current tr… Read More