Thursday, March 11th, 2010
On March 10, 2010, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced that it will not extend the period in which it temporarily accepted H-1B petitions filed with uncertified Labor Condition Applications (LCAs).
Due to processing delays associated with Department of Labor’s (DOL) “iCERT” system, USCIS responded to requests from the public and temporarily allowed H-1B petitions [...]
Filed under: H-1B by Thaker Berowitz LLP
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Tuesday, March 9th, 2010
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has announced that it will begin accepting H-1B petitions subject to the fiscal year (FY) 2011 cap on April 1, 2010. Cases will be considered accepted on the date that USCIS takes possession of a properly filed petition with the correct fee; not the date that the petition is [...]
Filed under: H-1B by Thaker Berowitz LLP
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Tuesday, December 22nd, 2009
As 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 [...]
Filed under: H-1B by Thaker Berowitz LLP
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Tuesday, December 22nd, 2009
The 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 [...]
Filed under: H-1B, workplace audit by Thaker Berowitz LLP
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Thursday, December 17th, 2009
As of December 15, 2009, approximately 64,200 H-1B cap-subject petitions had been filed. USCIS has approved sufficient H-1B petitions for aliens with advanced degrees to meet the exemption of 20,000 from the fiscal year 2010 cap. Any H-1B petitions filed on behalf of an alien with an advanced degree will now count toward the general H-1B [...]
Filed under: H-1B by Thaker Berowitz LLP
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Thursday, December 17th, 2009
Effective January 1, 2010, the Office of Foreign Labor Certification (OFLC) National Prevailing Wage and Helpdesk Center (NPWHC) in Washington, DC, will receive and process prevailing wage determination (PWD) requests for use in the H-1B, H-1B1 (Chile/Singapore), H-1C, H-2B, E-3 (Australia), and permanent labor certification programs.
On December 19, 2008, the Department published a Final Rule [...]
Filed under: H-1B, PWD by Thaker Berowitz LLP
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Monday, November 16th, 2009
On November 5, 2009, the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (“USCIS”) announced a temporary 120-day grace period where it will accept H-1B petitions filed without a Labor Conditions Application (“LCA”) that has been certified by the Department of Labor (“DOL”). Normally, a certified LCA must accompany an H-1B petition. However, since the DOL implement its [...]
Filed under: H-1B by Thaker Berowitz LLP
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Wednesday, November 4th, 2009
According to the USCIS’ latest count, as of October 30, 2009, approximately 53,800 H-1B cap-subject petitions had been filed. USCIS has approved sufficient H1-B petitions for aliens with advanced degrees to meet the exemption of 20,000 from the fiscal year 2010 cap. Any H1-B petitions filed on behalf of an alien with an advanced degree [...]
Filed under: H-1B by Thaker Berowitz LLP
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