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FY 2026 H-1B Cap Initial Registration Period Opens on March 7
USCIS announced Fiscal year 2026 H-1B cap will open at noon Eastern on March 7 and run through noon Eastern on March 24, 2025. During this period, prospective petitioners and representatives must use a USCIS online account to register each beneficiary electronically for the selection process and pay the associated registration fee for each beneficiary. Prospective H-1B cap-subject [...]
March 2025 Visa Bulletin
For Family-Sponsored Filings: For all family-sponsored preference categories, you must use the Dates for Filing chart in the Department of State Visa Bulletin for March 2025. For Employment-Based Preference Filings: For all employment-based preference categories, you must use the Final Action [...]
Federal judge temporarily blocks Trump’s order attempting to end birthright citizenship
A federal judge on Thursday temporarily blocked President Donald Trump’s executive order redefining birthright citizenship, calling it “blatantly unconstitutional” during the first hearing in a multi-state effort challenging the order. READ MORE
February 2025 Visa Bulletin
For Family-Sponsored Filings: For all family-sponsored preference categories, you must use the Dates for Filing chart in the Department of State Visa Bulletin for February 2025. For Employment-Based Preference Filings: For all employment-based preference categories, you must use the Final Action [...]
January 2025 Visa Bulletin
January 2025 Visa Bulletin now available. For Family-Sponsored Filings: For all family-sponsored preference categories, you must use the Dates for Filing chart in the Department of State Visa Bulletin for January 2025. For Employment-Based Preference Filings: For all employment-based preference [...]
December 2024 Visa Bulletin
December 2024 Visa Bulletin now available. Family-Sponsored Filings: For all family-sponsored preference categories, you must use the Dates for Filing chart in the Department of State Visa Bulletin for December 2024. For Employment-Based Preference Filings: For all employment-based preference categories, [...]
USCIS Will Conduct Second Random Selection for Regular Cap from Previously Submitted FY 2025 H-1B Cap Registrations
In March, USCIS conducted an initial random selection on properly submitted electronic registrations for the fiscal year 2025 H-1B cap, including for beneficiaries eligible for the advanced degree exemption. Only those petitioners with selected registrations for FY 2025 are eligible to file [...]
USCIS Publishes FAQs for Individuals in H-1B Nonimmigrant Status
USCIS published a series of FAQs addressing questions dealing with the H-1B nonimmigrant Visa. However, some of the information contained is hard to understand without proper context. We recommend consulting with an Attorney before relying on this information.
Easing the Nonimmigrant Visa Process for U.S. College Graduates
On June 18, 2024, the Biden-Harris Administration announced actions to more efficiently facilitate employment-based nonimmigrant visas for those who have graduated from college in the United States and have a job offer. This initiative will allow certain individuals to more [...]
Affirmative Relief Announcement – Highlights
To be considered on a case-by-case basis for this process, an individual must: Be present in the United States without admission or parole Have been continuously present in the United States for at least 10 years as of June 17, [...]
June is National Immigrant Heritage Month – Let Us Celebrate the U.S. National Cricket Team
Attorney Kidambi writes in this blogpost that In the coming weeks, as cricket is celebrated in America, we will get a chance to see our heroes perform to the best of their ability. No matter the outcome, he believes this [...]
The CEO Who Went Over and Beyond – And Drove a Bus to get There! Impressions Series – Blog post by Attorney Kidambi
In this article, Attorney Kidambi relates an incredible experience lobbying Congress for additional H-1B Visa Numbers and meeting with preeminent legislators. He also shares an interesting anecdote about one of our clients and how it shaped our practice. Read the [...]
Impressions of an Immigration Lawyer
Over the years, I have been incredibly lucky to have met a whole lot of people from a wide variety of fields. Some of these incredible individuals have left indelible impressions and shaped the way my Firm sees and represents [...]
USCIS Fee Increase to go into effect April 1, 2024
On Jan. 30, 2024, USCIS announced a final rule to adjust certain immigration and naturalization benefit request fees. We believe that this is both excessive and unnecessary. More importantly, it does nothing to reduce backlogs or speed up processing. This endless cycle [...]
An Extended Deadline and Dealing with a Record Number of H-1B CAP Registrations. What Happens Now?
Today, Noon ET March 25th marks the end of the H-1B CAP Registrations for FY 2025 (USCIS follows a fiscal year October 1st to September 30th). Year after year, even during the pandemic, registrations have been steadily increasing. This chart [...]
USCIS Extends Initial Registration Period for FY 2025 H-1B Cap
USCIS has extended the initial registration period for the fiscal year (FY) 2025 H-1B cap. The initial registration period, which opened at noon Eastern on March 6, 2024, and was originally scheduled to run through noon Eastern on March 22, [...]
Online Filing For Organizational Accounts – The Kidambi Approach
We have been scheduling one on one calls to go over the setting up of myUSCIS accounts and CAP registration for FY2025. If you have not received a phone call from our Office to go over the process and how [...]
USCIS Offers – FAQ on Organizational Accounts
On Feb. 28, 2024, USCIS officially launched new organizational accounts that will allow multiple people within a company or organization to collaborate and prepare H-1B registrations, H-1B petitions, and associated requests for premium processing. Note that a new organizational account is [...]
The Beneficiary Centric Approach to H-1B CAP Selection – A Quick Overview
We are given to understand that under the new system, the agency will run the H-1B selection process based on the beneficiary’s valid passport number, or the number of another valid travel document, regardless of the number of employer H-1B [...]
Online Filing For Organizational Accounts – The Kidambi Approach
USCIS online accounts have been glitching and we have received reports that USCIS is aware of the issue and is working to resolve the problems users are facing. As a result, apart from using it to register H-1B CAP cases, [...]