NEWS
May 2024 Visa Bulletin
May 2024 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 May 2024.For Employment-Based Preference Filings:For all employment-based preference categories, you must use the Final [...]
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, [...]
April 2024 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 April 2024.For Employment-Based Preference Filings:For all employment-based preference categories, you must use the Final Action Dates chart in the [...]
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, [...]
H-1B CAP FY 2025 – Summary Overview
On January 30, 2024, USCIS announced a series of changes that will impact the FY2025 H-1B registration system and cap filing season. H-1B Registration Final Rule DHS posted a final rule revising the H-1B Registration System and it is set [...]
Kidambi & Associates Wins Extraordinary Ability (EB1A) Case Documented Through Comparable Evidence
Recently, the Office obtained yet another approval (IOE8007774496) in the Employment Based First Preference Category. This was a welcome approval for a long-suffering, extremely talented, highly qualified legal immigrant (COB: India), who had spent over a decade waiting for a [...]
No Changes To H-1B CAP/Registration for 2024 (FY 2025). $10 Fee Remains Unchanged
During an interactive Webinar held on January 24th, USCIS representatives confirmed that the H-1B CAP for this year will remain unchanged for the most part. Although, the USCIS has published the “H-1B Modernizing Rule” in the Federal Register, it appears [...]
USCIS Updates Guidance on Untimely Filed Extension of Stay and Change of Status Requests
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services announced an update to its Policy Manual providing that USCIS, in its discretion and under certain conditions, may excuse a nonimmigrant’s failure to timely file an extension of stay or change of status request if [...]
DOS Provides FAQ & Additional Information on Domestic Renewal of H-1B Nonimmigrant Visas for Certain Applicants
The Department of State has announced a pilot program to resume domestic visa renewals for qualified H-1B nonimmigrant visa applicants who meet certain requirements. The pilot program will accept applications from January 29, 2024, through April 1, 2024, or when [...]
USCIS to Launch Organizational Accounts, Enabling Online Collaboration and Submission of H-1B Registrations
USCIS will launch organizational accounts for non-cap filings and the fiscal year (FY) 2025 H-1B cap season. The introduction of organizational accounts will allow multiple individuals within an organization, such as a company or other business entity, and their legal [...]
USCIS Announces Inflation Adjustment to Premium Processing Fees
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services announced a final rule that will increase the filing fee for Form I-907, Request for Premium Processing, to adjust for inflation. The USCIS Stabilization Act established the current premium processing fees and the authority for [...]
FY 2024 H-1B CAP Reached
USCIS has received a sufficient number of petitions needed to reach the congressionally mandated 65,000 H-1B visa regular cap and the 20,000 H-1B visa U.S. advanced degree exemption, known as the master’s cap, for fiscal year (FY) 2024. READ MORE
Group of Indian nationals with approved EB-2 petitions Sued over backlogs. The Courts Declined to Change the Status Quo
In consolidated appeals, the court affirmed the district courts’ denials of injunctive relief in cases in which the plaintiffs, a group of Indian nationals with approved EB-2 petitions who have been waiting in a visa queue for more than 10 [...]
How to Submit a Case Assistance Request
The Office of the Citizenship and Immigration Services Ombudsman (CIS Ombudsman) assists individuals and employers in resolving difficulties they are experiencing with U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS).
Certain Renewal Applicants for Employment Authorization to Receive Automatic 180 Day Extension
USCIS announced certain renewal applicants who have filed Form I-765, Application for Employment Authorization, qualify for an automatic extension of their expiring employment authorization and/or employment authorization documents (EADs) while their renewal application is pending. Starting today, those who are [...]