Given the opposition of the former Judiciary Committee chair, Senator Charles Grassley (R-IA), who had blocked a similar bill in 2011, the Fairness for High-Skilled Immigrants Act of 2019 (S. 386) had been given little chance of passage until this week, when a deal was reached with the bill’s sponsor, Senator Mike Lee (R-UT), to […]
Tag: H1B Visa
United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) on November 7 announced a $10 hike in its H-1B work visa application fee as part of its revised selection process. The non-refundable fee will support the new electronic registration system to make the H-1B cap selection process more efficient and effective for both petitioners and the federal […]
USCIS will officially begin accepting petitions for the H-1B Visa 2020 on April 1st, 2018 for the next fiscal year which spans from October 1st, 2019 to September 30th, 2020. In other words, all petitions filed after April 1st will apply for the H-1B visa 2020 lottery. What is the H-1B Visa Cap? The H-1B […]