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U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has announced that it will start accepting Premium Processing Service requests for Forms I-140 (Immigrant Petition for Alien Worker) filed on behalf of certain alien workers who are nearing the end of their sixth year in H-1B nonimmigrant status from June 16, 2008.
Who Are the Select Few?
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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 [...]

The H1B Season for 2009 will open today. Speculations are high as to how long it will take for the applications to overtake the quota – one day like last year or more. The situation this year is however a little different from the previous years, as USCIS has introduced a few changes to [...]

USCIS will start accepting applications for H-1B employment in 2009 on April 1, 2008, which is another three weeks from now. If one remembers last years chaos, the date had fallen on a Sunday and the first date of application had been pushed to Tuesday, which ended up being the only day after all, [...]

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) is extending the temporary suspension of Premium Processing Service for Form I-140 which came into effect from July 2, 2007. The temporary suspension was put in place as the Agency anticipated the volume of application will exceed the manpower required to provide the 15-day expedited service promised by [...]