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The United States Citizenship and Immigration Services announced this afternoon that the quota for cap subject H-1B visas has officially been reached for the Fiscal Year 2012. USCIS will reject all cap-subject petitions for new H-1B specialty occupations workers with start dates in Fiscal Year 2012. Read more at: FY 2012 H-1B Cap Reached.
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On May 29, 2008, a conglomerate of anti-H1B organizations including the Immigration Reform Law Institute, The Programmers Guild and a few other groups, filed a lawsuit in the U.S District court in Newark, NJ challenging the authority of the DHS in creating a rule such as the OPT extension rule. The lawsuit is urging [...]

USCIS,200U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) received nearly 163,000 H-1B petitions by April 7, 2008, the last day of receipt. For those who not familiar with H1B process, April 1st was the first day of receiving applications for H1B, and USCIS had announced this time that if the H1B cap of 65.000 was reached [...]

The H1B Cap for Fiscal Year 2009 has been met within the first five business days, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced today. The H1B Master’s Cap has also been reached inside the five day period.  USCIS has not announced the date for the random selection process which will be conducted once the [...]

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 [...]