by admin | Jan 8, 2021 | Employment Based Immigrant Visa, General Immigration, General News, H-1B, Immigration News, Latest News, Non-Immigrant Visas, Visas
On January 8, 2020, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) published a final rule that replaces the H-1B cap lottery system with a system that allocated H-1B visa numbers according to the Department of Labor’s Occupational Employment Statistics (OES) four...
by admin | Dec 11, 2020 | Employment Based Immigrant Visa, General Immigration, General News, H-1B, Immigration News, Latest News, Non-Immigrant Visas, Visas
Last Tuesday, U.S. District Judge Jeffrey White’s ruling dismissed changes the administration announced in October 2020 to the H-1B visa program, which included salary requirements on firms that employed skilled workers from overseas and placed new limits on...
by admin | Dec 2, 2020 | Employment Based Immigrant Visa, General Immigration, General News, H-1B, Immigration News, Latest News, Non-Immigrant Visas, Visas
A federal judge threw out two rules by the Trump administration that limited the number of visas that are made available to skilled foreign workers. The Tuesday ruling from U.S. District Judge Jeffrey White, dismisses changes the administration announced in October...
by admin | Oct 8, 2020 | General Immigration, General News, H-1B, Immigration News, Latest News, Non-Immigrant Visas, Visas
The Department of Labor (DOL) and Department of Homeland Security (DHS) have published two new interim rules, changing wage requirements for employment-based visas as well as regulatory criteria for adjudicating H-1B petitions. The first (wage requirements) will be...
by admin | Sep 21, 2020 | Employment Based Immigrant Visa, General Immigration, General News, H-1B, Immigration News, Latest News, Non-Immigrant Visas, Visas
The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) is reviewing a Department of Labor (DOL) rule that is seeking to make a restructuring to the wage level system to establish prevailing wage minimums in the H-1B, H-1B1, and E-3 and PERM programs. The regulation is expected to...
