On July 23, 2021, the Biden administration filed a cross-motion for summary judgment in Chamber of Commerce v. DHS, a lawsuit in the Northern District of California brought by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Bay Area Council, National Retail Federation, and others against the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) proposed rule, “Modification of Registration Requirement for Petitioners Seeking to File Cap-Subject H-1B Petitions.” The rule, which DHS published on January 8, 2021, purports to amend the regulations governing the process by which U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) selects H-1B registrations for the filing of H-1B cap-subject petitions.
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USCIS announced on April 11, 2018 that it has completed the computer-generated random selection process, or lottery, to select enough H-1B petitions to meet the congressionally-mandated number of petitions for regular cap and master’s cap for fiscal year (FY) 2019. USCIS conducted the random selection process for the 20,000 master’s cap first. All unselected master’s […]
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Apr 06 2018
On April 6, 2018, USCIS announced that it has reached the 65,000 H-1B visa Regular Cap and the 20,000 visa H-1B Masters Cap for the 2019 Fiscal Year. After completion of the H-1B lottery selection process, USCIS will reject and return filing fees for all unselected cap-subject petitions that are not duplicate filings. USCIS will continue […]
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