H1B Cap Season and Online Registration

H1B Cap Season & Online Registration It’s the H1B Cap season of the year (again)!  If you need a reminder on what the “cap season” is, here is a quick summary:  The Congress has placed a limit, aka “the cap,” on the number of H1B visas that can be issued each year. There are, in […]

H1B Lottery Change to Highest Bidder Takes All

H1B Lottery Changes to Highest Bidder Takes All? On January 7, 2020, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) released its final rule to amend regulations governing the process by which U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services selects H-1B registrations for filing of H1B cap-subject petitions. 86 FR 1676.  Should the registration process (implemented in 2020) be […]

Trump Administration’s Proposal to Change the H-1B Requirements

Trump Administration’s Proposal to Change the H1B Requirements On October 8, 2020, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) published an interim final rule (IFR), which proposes significant changes to the longstanding regulations governing the H-1B visa program. The proposed rule is slated to go into effect on December 7, 2020 and it includes the following […]

Federal Judge Strikes Down the H-1B Rule Increasing H-1B Wages

Federal Judge Strikes Down the H-1B Rule Increasing H-1B Wages On December 1, 2020, U.S. Federal Court for the Northern District of California in Chamber of Commerce of the United States of America V. U.S. Department of Homeland Security struck down the Department of Labor (DOL) rule that profoundly changed how it calculated H-1B and […]