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Though he tried and failed last year, Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates’ plea for H1B quota hike seems to have appealed to the politicians in the pre-election mode this year. Two Bills have been introduced, one by U.S. House of Representatives Democrat on the Science and Technology Committee which Gates had addressed and another by [...]

The April 2008 Visa Bulletin, released by the U.S. Department of State (DOS), finally shed a few rays of sunshine on the EB-2 applicants from India as the category became available albeit with a cut-off date around 2003. The EB2 cutoff dates for China have again moved forward. Continuing its forward trend from the [...]

An interim final rule has been issued by the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services which will prohibit employers from filing multiple H-1B petitions for a single beneficiary. This rule, however, does not prohibit parent companies or subsidiaries from filing petitions for same beneficiary for different positions.  The interim final rule will become effective when it [...]

All lawful permanent residents of US age through 14 to 79 applying for re-entry permit and individuals applying for refugee travel document will now be required to provide Biometrics i.e. finger prints and photographs at a USCIS Application Support Center (“ASC”) for background and security checks.
Why biometric?
USCIS has stated that biometrics is not only [...]

The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) has announced a new centralized processing for permanent labor certification applications (also know as PERM) applications. Effective June 1, 2008 -

Processing of all PERM applications will be centralized at the Atlanta National Processing Center (NPC).
Applications for H-2A, H-2B, H-1C and D-1 will be processed at the Chicago NPC
Requests [...]