The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced today, April 5, 2013, that it has received a sufficient number of H-1B visa petitions to reach the statutory cap for fiscal year (FY) 2014. USCIS has also received more than 20,000 H-1B petitions filed on behalf of persons with U.S. advanced degrees. After today, USCIS will not … Read more
The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced on March 15, 2013 that, based on feedback from a number of stakeholders, “USCIS anticipates that it may receive more than 65,000 cap-subject H-1B petitions and more than 20,000 petitions filed on behalf of individuals with a U.S. master’s degree or higher between April 1, 2013 and … Read more
The annual H-1B cap season for U.S. companies (other than institutions of higher education and non-profit research institutions) will be opening in less than two months, on April 1, 2013! Experts are predicting that this season will be the shortest since the start of the 2008 recession. This means that there will likely only be … Read more