On June 8, 2026, a Federal District Court in Massachusetts vacated the September 19, 2025 Presidential Proclamation establishing a $100,000 fee for certain H-1B workers. The District Court vacated the Proclamation in its entirety, resulting in a ruling with nationwide…
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Immigration Quick Takes — August 2024
H-1B Cap Statistics The United States Citizenship and Immigration Services has released data detailing the efficacy of the new beneficiary-centric H-1B registration system. Particularly, the average number of registrations submitted per beneficiary decreased by 38.6 percent, with the overall number…
Immigration Quick Takes — January 2024
Stateside Visa Processing On December 21, 2023, the Department of State announced that, for the first time in almost two decades, they will process domestic visa renewals for certain H-1B applicants. This will take place as part of a pilot…
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H-1B Visa Lottery
Each year, approximately 85,000 new H-1B visas become available to US employers seeking to sponsor foreign national workers in “specialty occupation” positions across all industries. These new H-1B visas go into effect annually at the start of the federal government’s…
New Regulation Replaces H-1B Cap Lottery Process with Selection Process Based on Wage Level
By Immigration Attorneys Donald Parker and Victoria Morte In 2020, the USCIS revised the lottery process, conducting the H-1B Lottery through an online registration system. Sponsoring employers registered foreign nationals for the lottery online in the first three weeks of…
2021 H-1B Cap Lottery Process – Update
USCIS Provides Important Details on the Process for the Upcoming Electronic H-1B Registration Process By Grant W. Godfrey and Donald W. Parker In January 2020, we wrote a post discussing the new H-1B lottery process this year, which will require…
2021 H-1B Cap Lottery Process: Changes Ahead
USCIS Announces Upcoming H-1B Lottery Will Be Done Under the New Electronic Registration System — But Much Remains Unclear By Donald W. Parker, Immigration Lawyer Background on The New Law On January 31, 2019, the US Department of Homeland Security…
USCIS Has Opened Premium Processing to All H-1B Petitions Filed on or before December 21, 2018
By Grant Godfrey and John Gallini Effective today, the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) is accepting upgrades to premium processing service for all H-1B petitions filed on or before December 21, 2018. The suspension of premium processing for H-1B…
H-1B Cap Lottery Process: Important Regulatory Changes
By Donald W. Parker, Immigration Attorney On January 31, 2019, the US Department of Homeland Security promulgated a final regulation that makes several important changes in the H-1B lottery process, which we briefly addressed in our recently published alert about…
H-1B Cap Filing Window Still Scheduled to Open April 1
Changes Help Foreign Workers with Advanced U.S. Degrees By Grant Godfrey, Immigration Attorney U.S. Employers continue to struggle to fill highly-skilled positions, particularly in the Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) fields where well-educated U.S. workers with the required experience…
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