USCIS announced today, April 11th, 2019 that they completed H1B visa Lottery for 2020 quota. Below is the summary of the press release. Summary of USCIS Press release on H1B 2020 Lottery Completion : H1B 2020 Lottery Completed : USCIS mentioned that they have conducted H1B lottery on April 10th . They have received 201,011 petitions for FY 2020 Quota …

As you all USCIS started accepting H1B 2020 petitions from April 1st. USCIS just announced a press release indicating that they have reached enough number of petitions for the regular quota (i.e. 65,000 ).  Let’s review the news summary by USCIS. Summary of USCIS News – H1B 2020 Cap Reached for Bachelors : Regular Quota Full : USCIS announced that …

USCIS launched H1B Data Hub today as part of their transparency efforts to make H1B Program data available to public. In the past, we only had H1B LCA data that was published by DOL, but USCIS data was not fully published by employer with full details. As part of their transparency efforts, they indicated in the press release for H1B …

Today, April 1st, is a big day for many of you awaiting to work in US on H1B visa. The process of H1B has changed over the last few years, where we moved away from H1B Cap being open for few months to closing out now in 5 days, that’s the state of demand for H1B in recent times, despite …

USCIS released a press note earlier today confirming the standard April 1st start date for accepting petitions for the H1B Visa 2020 Season. There are some differences in the press release regarding premium processing from previous years and new announcements as part of this news release, we will summarize them below.  Summary of USCIS News on H1B Start Date for …

Many of the international students and professionals aspiring to work in US are waiting for the start of the upcoming H1B Visa 2020 season to file their petitions with USCIS and check out their luck. We had H1B lottery for the past 6 consecutive years, that’s the state of demand for H1B Visas. In the past, before 6 years, we …

All the H1B fiscal year 2020 news, updates – both official & unofficial 🙂 will be tracked on this page. You can bookmark this page. Latest News Updates – Official and Unofficial ( Most recent on top ): Aug 15, 2019(Official ) : USCIS released a press note today indicating that they have returned all the petitions that were not selected in …

As you all know H1B Premium processing was suspended till Feb 19, 2019 and opened in phases with it open for H1B 2019 cap petitions first and then for petitions that were filed before Dec 21, 2018. Many have been waiting for their turn to expedite their H1B petition processing. Earlier today USCIS announced that they have resume premium processing …

Earlier this year, USCIS passed a regulation that changes the way H1B lottery is conducted with a New Registration Requirement, but due to time constraints they are not fully implementing the New H1B Registration Rule in full and only implementing small part of it for the upcoming H1B season. We will look at what will be applicable for H1B Visa …

As you know, originally H1B Premium Processing was suspended till Feb 19, 2019 and recently in January 2019 USCIS resumed premium processing for H1Bs filed under FY 2019 cap in April 2018. Now, they have released a press note indicating that they will open up premium processing for everyone, who have filed H1B petitions on or before December 21, 2018 …