Latest news updates and articles related to H1B Visa. USCIS, DHS published news updates, policy changes, regulations related to H1B Visa.
If you would like to work in the US as a foreign national, H1B Visa is one such option for someone with specialized skills. USCIS, as part of streamlining the overall H1B visa process, including the H1B Visa Lottery introduced the H1B registration process starting from the H1B Visa Fiscal Year(FY) 2021 Season that happened …
As you all know, USCIS has suspended premium processing for H1B visa 2019 petitions until Feb 19, 2019. Earlier today, USCIS announced in a press note that they are opening up premium processing for certain petitions from next week. Below is the summary. H1B Premium Processing Resumes for FY 2019 Petitions – News Summary Below …
Many H1B Visa holders in the US or outside of the US go through something called the H1B Visa Transfer Process when they wish to change employers, which is nothing but companies. One common question that comes to mind is the validity of the H1B Visa Stamp on their passport with the old employer name, after the change …
Many companies do layoffs due to changes in strategy, cost-cutting measures, mergers, or due to downturns in their business. In such cases, employees lose their jobs and some of them could be H1B holders as well. In those cases, H1B employees need to think of their options and how it works. Before 2017, there was …
USCIS processing times for H1B visa petitions can sometimes get very long and some H1B holders may end up in situations, where they hit the 240 days mark and not sure, if they can work or not. As the H1B premium Processing is suspended until Feb 2019, many H1B holders are in similar situations with …
As part of the H1B Registration Process regulation document, DHS revealed many of their internal H1B statistics data regarding petitions filed, overall lottery numbers, premium petitions, US masters vs Regular quota filings, etc. This H1B data used to be only provided on request and not widely published to everyone. Now, it is officially published. Below …
As announced in Fall 2018 Regulatory Agenda, DHS and USCIS published the proposed new H1B petition pre-registration rule in Federal Register for public review and comments. It had an expected date of Oct 2018 for Notice of Proposed Rule Making (NPRM), but got delayed to December. Actual proposed rule document is 139 pages. We will …
Some of the H1B petitions are denied by USCIS, it could be for a variety of reasons. Two of the most common H1B denial reason is Employer Employee Relationship Clause and H1B Speciality Occupation Services. Many of you may be curious to know, how that may look like and the wording that USCIS uses for the …
Today is October 1st, USCIS fiscal year starts today. If you have applied H1B Visa for Fiscal year 2019, earlier this year during April 2018 and got lucky in H1B visa lottery and have your H1B approved, today is when most of you would start working. Depending on your situation, you may be doing Change …
This page has all details, FAQs, latest news updates that are related to the H1B Visa 2020 season that started in April 2019. Previous H1B season details are at H1B Visa FY 2019 Quota. H1B 2020 Season is over, Check out details of current H1B 2022 season at H1B Visa 2022 – Registration, Lottery, Fee …