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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 Labor (DOL) Liason Committee provided suggestions for avoiding delays when seeking certification of the ETA Form 9035, or the Labor Condition Application (LCA). What is the LCA? The Labor Condition Application is the form t… Read More

AILA issued a practice alert on March 11, 2019, to announce that USCIS updated the filing addresses for Form I-129 on February 28, 2019. What is the Form I-129? The Form I-129 is a petition for a nonimmigrant worker to come temporarily to the United… Read More

Last week, on February 25, 2019, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) proposed a rule which extended qualification for employment authorization to some H-4 dependent spouses of H-1B nonimmigrants seeking employment-based permanent resident statu… Read More

Last week, we published a blog post regarding the final rule announced by the Department of Homeland Security regarding H-1B visa petitions. This rule has now been published in the Federal Register and AILA has issued a practice alert with details ab… Read More

What is the new rule? Today, the Department of Homeland Security posted a final rule that will alter regulations regarding H-1B petitions, including those eligible for the advanced degree exemption. This new rule reverses the order in which USCIS sel… Read More