Day: February 5, 2021

Download article as PDF USCIS announced today that the initial H-1B cap registrations for the FY2022 annual quota (or cap) will open on March 9th, 2021.   U.S. employers and their legal representatives can start filing registrations at noon Eastern Standard Time (EST) on March 9th. USC...

Download article as PDF Through implementation of a “Special Instruction” in April 2017[1], United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has been requiring B-1/B-2 to F-1 Change of Status (COS) applicants to file B-1/B-2 extension application(s) to “bridge the gap” un...

Download article as PDF Today, DHS announced that the final rule creating a wage-based selection process for H-1B registrations will not go into effect until December 31, 2021. This rule was first set to go into effect on March 9, 2021, but got pushed to March 21, 2021, because of the regulatory fre...