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Month: December 2009

H1B Visa Cap for FY2010 Reached!

December 22, 2009
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Today, the US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) released an announcement that H1B cap subject visas have been reached, meaning that the 65,000 H1B statutory cap visas are fully used up for the fiscal year of 2010. Any cap-subject H1B petitions that were properly filed and received by the USCIS on December 21, 2009 will…

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DOS Proposed Rule: Increase in Non-Immigrant Visa Application fees from $131 to $140

December 14, 2009
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A newly proposed rule by the Department of State may amend the application fees for most Non-Immigrant Visa Applications from $131 to $140. The rule also provides new application fees for certain areas of petition based non-immigrant visas, treaty traders and investor visas. The Department of State intends to implement this proposed rule, after the…

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January 2010 Visa Bulletin

December 10, 2009
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The Department of State has just released its January 2010 Visa Bulletin. Again, no major movement for employment based preference categories, although it did, as compared to last month’s Visa Bulletin, move forward slightly for the second and third preference categories. For the second preference employment based category, cut off dates for applicants from China…

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Chinese College Students Flocking to the U.S.

December 10, 2009
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Foreign Chinese students contributed nearly $18 billion last year in tuition and living expenses to the U.S. economy, according to a November report from the Institute of International Education. This statistic shows that not only that China’s improved economy enabled more parents to afford their child’s education in the U.S. but also indicate a possible…

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Useful information on the latest DOL’s measure for H1Bs’ Labor Certificate Application Filings

December 10, 2009
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Due to heavy delays in processing time for certain LCA certificates via the recently implemented “iCERT” system, the Department of Labor announced earlier in November that it would accept H1B petitions with uncertified Labor Certificate Applications filed between November 2009 and March 2010. Yesterday, the US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced that it would…

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