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FY-2009 is likely to be significant for H2-B, not only because it is taking center stage with H1-B number crisis, but also because of proposed changes in the current H2B process.
The FY2009 began with the good news for H-2B applicants as the quota is still available but U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) reports that [...]

People were expecting a war, but it turned out to be just a small skirmish, but everyone shaking hands and making nice. Back in June 2008, the Department of Labor initiated mass audit into cases handled by one of the biggest immigration law firms in US Fragomen, Del Rey, Bernsen & Loewy, on charges that [...]

For the many green card aspirants who were waiting with baited breath for the October 2008 Visa Bulletin, hoping for it to breathe new life into the retrogressed visa categories, it turned out to be a sorely disappointing beginning of a new Fiscal Year.
Who Got the Short end?
Nationals of India and China in the Employment [...]

The October 2008 Visa Bulletin, released by the U.S. Department of State (DOS), spells good news for all EB-3 Skilled and Unskilled Workers from around the world except for India and China. The EB-3 category has been labeled “unavailable” for a couple of moths. While we had earlier predicted that October will ease the situation [...]

Changes proposed for New H-2B Program

India May Be Blacklisted!

On August 20th, 2008 the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) agency made two announcements that will have huge impacts on the H-2B immigration – first to withdraw the 2005-issued proposed rule changes to H-2B program, and the second to introduce the new proposed changes [...]