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As our regular readers will know, we had recently reported that the Naturalization Backlog will not clear before 2010. As detailed in the article, by the end of FY2007, there was more then 140,000 Immigrant Petition for Alien Worker (FORM I-140) petitions awaiting their fate. Due to the lack of adequate resources to deal with [...]
Proposes to Replace DV Lottery with Visa for Advanced Degree Holders
While attempts have been made to terminate the Diversity Lottery or Green Card Lottery program before, none of them had put forward such a desirable replacement program of Immigrant Visa for Advanced Degree holders. The Bill, called S. 2868 as of now, was introduced to [...]
A Republican committee has asked the current Democrat leadership to clear a proposed bill which proposes to raise the H1-B visa (specialty occupation) numbers, from the current 65,000 to 115,000, with provision for 20 percent annual increase.
The Republican Study Committee of the House of Representatives made their appeal on a letter to the Speaker and [...]
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has announced today it would allow F-1 students, whose H-1B petitions have been selected for fiscal year (FY) 2009, to request a change of status in lieu of consular notification. This is a short-term measure taken to accommodate the changes introduced by the recent Interim final rule on F1 [...]
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) have conducted its computer-generated random selection processes to select petitions towards this year’s H1B and H1B Advanced Degree quota. The H1B quota is of 65,000 and the advanced degree quota is of 20,000. USCIS had received around 163,000 petitions in the first five days of filing period this year.
As [...]
