USCIS has updated the count of cap eligible petitions for H-1B visas in the 2013 fiscal year. As of May 18, 2012, USCIS had received 42,000 out of 65,000 cap eligible petitions. USCIS also reported that it had received 16,000 petitions eligible for the Master’s cap exemption of 20,000 visas. For more information, please visit [...]

USCIS has updated the count of cap eligible petitions for H-1B visas in the 2013 fiscal year. As of May 11, USCIS had received 36,700 out of 65,000 cap eligible petitions. USCIS also reported that it had received 14,800 petitions eligible for the Master’s cap exemption of 20,000 visas. For more information, please visit the [...]

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.

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 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 a [...]