The true case examples used below are used for illustration purposes. Case results depend upon a variety of factors unique to each case and case results do not guarantee or predict a similar result in any future case undertaken by a lawyer. In this p…
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Tis the season! While many in the U.S. are busy preparing for the holiday season, employers and potential H-1B employees are bustling filing H-1B transfers for the start of the new year, and thinking about preparing for the H-1B “cap” sea…
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One of the steps involved in the H-1B petition process is filing a labor condition application with the U.S. Department of Labor. This is done online. However, if an H-1B sponsor has not filed an H-1B petition before, the online system will not recog…
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Employers and prospective H-1B employees alike are starting to think about the upcoming H-1B filing season (cap-subject H-1Bs, which can be filed starting April 1). One question that some employers have is how many H-1B petitions they can file in any…
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When an H-1B petition is filed for a beneficiary who is working a third-party worksite, sometime the beneficiary changes the end client worksite before the H-1B petition is adjudicated. What can be done in this situation, when USCIS issues a request…
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For years, I have fielded calls from excited H-1B beneficiaries who say that they heard that the rules will change to allow for work permits (also called EADs, short for employment authorization documents) for H-4 spouses (dependents of H-1B benefici…
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Were you counted against the H-1B cap more than six years ago? Since the H-1B cap was met so quickly this year, we are busy helping many clients and prospective clients think about alternative ways to meet their immigration goals. Some foreign nation…
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As of Monday, April 21st our office has received the first H-1B receipt notices for the cap cases filed April 1. Our office has received relatively few receipt notices so far, and this is consistent with what other attorneys are reporting as well. In…
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On Monday of this week, USCIS announced that it had received sufficient cap-subject H-1B petitions during the first five days of filing to trigger the H-1B lottery. Today (April 10, 2014), USCIS announced that they have completed the random selection…
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New H-1B clients frequently ask me what the first step is, or what they should be doing now to prepare for the upcoming H-1B cap. While the answer varies depending on whether they have filed before, how much corporate information we already have on f…
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