H1B Historical Data – Lottery vs 85K Quota, Masters vs Regular Split

USCIS H1B Historical Data and Stats

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 …

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H1B Visa Pre-registration Requirements Proposed Rule, Lottery, Analysis

H1B Visa Pre-registration Rule USCIS for Lottery News and Analysis

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 …

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USCIS News : H1B Premium Processing Suspended Until Feb 19, 2019. Impact Analysis ?

H1B Premium Processing Suspended News Till Feb 2019

USCIS announced that premium processing will be suspended for most of the H1B Visa petitions starting September 11th, 2018 until Feb 19th , 2019. Below is a summary of the update and how it will impact various H1B holders and prospective H1B seekers like F1 students, OPT, etc. Summary of USCIS H1B Premium Processing Suspension …

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News : USCIS New Policy – Deny Petitions without giving RFE, NOID. H1B Impact ?

USCIS New 2018 Policy on Denying without Issuing RFE and NOID

USCIS announced a policy memo on July 13th giving more power to the USCIS’ adjudicators of various kinds of petitions.  The new policy memorandum basically cancels/ revokes previous USCIS policy on issuance of Request for Evidence (RFE) and Notice of Intent to Deny (NOID) from 2013.  Let’s look at details. What was the previous 2013 …

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