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If you are planning to apply for H1B Visa this upcoming H1B Visa 2022 season, it is critical that you know the exact dates. Today, USCIS announced the dates for registration, process, and other details. In this article, we will cover all those details. Summary of USCIS H1B 2022 Registration and Lottery Dates News Below …
President Biden revoked previous Trump Administration’s “Buy American, Hire American Executive Order (EO)” on Jan 25, 2021 and signed an Executive Order that focuses only on the “Buy American”. This has a big impact on the work visa programs like H1B, L1, Others and DHS & Dept of Labor stance towards the same. In this …
On Jan 15th, 2021, US Department of Labor (DOL) published guidance that H1B LCAs have to be filed by end clients. It also modified the salaries, benefits requirements that have to be followed by end clients to be compliant. It was later withdrawn by DOL on Jan 20th, 2021 after Biden administration took office. This …
As many of you know DHS published an interim final rule to strengthen H1B Program that changed the definition of specialty occupation, gave 1-year approvals, and others. It was cancelled by court order. Today, DHS is taking a small part of the same rule and publishing the final rule. In this article, we will look …
US Department of Labor(DOL) published H1B, PERM Wage Levels Changes regulation as interim final rule on October 8th, 2020 and later it was cancelled by courts as they did not follow proper notice and comment period. DOL had to revert back the FLCDataCenter published wage levels and do many other things to comply with court …
DHS published a proposed rule to change how the H1B Visa Lottery process would work during the H1B Registration Process on Nov 2, 2020, later they published final rule on Jan 7th, 2021 with an effective date of March 9, 2021. But, after Biden Administration has taken office, they have moved the effective date of …
If you plan to work in the US on an H1B visa in the year 2022, you need to first submit H1B Registration and then file an H1B petition with USCIS for the Fiscal Year 2023. In this article, we cover all the aspects of the H1B visa for the fiscal year 2023 season like …
US Department of Labor (DOL) made an announcement late yesterday, Dec 3rd, 2020, stating that they are cancelling the H1B Wage Levels increase Interim Final Rule that was published by them on Oct 8, 2020. They are doing this to comply as per the recent Court Orders, where they lost the case. They gave guidance …
US District Court in Northern District of California issued an order today (Dec 1st, 2020) that set aside two recent H1B regulations that were issued by US Dept of Labor (DOL) and US Department of Homeland Security (DHS). In this article we will review the background, summary of the judgment, arguments points reviewed by court, …
DHS announced a new H1B rule today that will change the way H1B registration lottery is conducted. DHS plans to change the H1B lottery selection based on the prevailing wage that employer plans to offer for that position. DHS is seeking public comments as part of the regulatory process. This rule is not final yet, …