Merry Christmas!
Tuesday, December 22nd, 2009To those of you who celebrate Christmas, we wish you a very Merry Christmas and the best that this holiday season has to offer!
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FY2010 H-1B Cap Has Been Reached
Tuesday, December 22nd, 2009As of December 21, 2009, USCIS has received sufficient petitions to reach the statutory cap for FY2010. USCIS has also received more than 20,000 H-1B petitions on behalf of persons exempt from the cap under the advanced degree exemption. USCIS will reject cap-subject petitions for new H-1B specialty occupation workers seeking an employment start date [...]
Asylum Seekers and Detention – A Change in Policy
Tuesday, December 22nd, 2009On December 16, 2009, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (“ICE”) Assistant Secretary John Morton announced that ICE will generally release from detention arriving asylum seekers who have a credible fear of persecution or torture if certain criteria are met-part of ICE’s ongoing immigration detention reform efforts.
The revised guidelines, effective Jan. 4, 2010, will permit parole [...]
H-1B Enforcement to be Strenghtened
Tuesday, December 22nd, 2009The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (“USCIS”) is planning to step up its effort to conduct on-site inspections of H-1B visa employers to see whether employers that have sponsored workers for an H-1B visa are complying with the terms or are in violation of them.
The USCIS plans to conduct 25,000 on-site inspections in 2010. The [...]
