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No Deadline for H1B Visa Applicants: USCIS

April 2, 2010
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No Deadline for H1B Visa Applicants: USCIS

The US citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) have started accepting the H1B Visa applications for the next fiscal year from Wednesday. An overall 65,000 applications are offered excluding 20,000 H1B visas for applicants of US masters’ or higher degree. In 2009, due to the downturn the filed applications were fewer and to meet the...
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Greencard for child of a fiancée of a US citizen

March 31, 2010
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Greencard for child of a fiancée of a US citizen

The Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that a child of a fiancée of a United States Citizen or K-2 visa holder can adjust his or her status to Greencard holder or Lawful Permanent Resident (LPR) even though the child turns twenty-one while the application is pending. The court’s ruling comes from the matter...
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The I-485 Inventory Numbers Require Attention

October 27, 2009
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The I-485 Inventory Numbers Require Attention

The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) released the most recent inventory numbers of employment-based green card applications on its newly-designed website1 in late September of 2009. These statistics are released in a comprehensive manner, categorized by country of chargeability and preference category. Although visa backlog has been a known problem for many years,...
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    Wall Street Journal (blog)
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  • Senator Wants 55000 Green Cards For Tech Grads
    InformationWeek (blog)
    Cornyn's bill, the Securing the Talent America Requires for the 21st Century (STAR) Act, would allocate 55000 green cards to foreign students enrolled in graduate level STEM programs at US institutions. To offset those visas, the so-called diversity ...

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