The staff at Wildes & Weinberg, P.C. is hard at work burning the midnight oil in order to complete all H-1 cap cases in a timely fashion.
On Tuesday April 1, 2014, the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service (USCIS) will begin accepting new H-1B petitions for the 2015 fiscal year, with a start date of October 1, 2014. U.S. businesses use the H-1B visa program to employ foreign workers in specialty occupations that require theoretical or practical application of a body of highly specialized knowledge, including, but not limited to: scientists, engineers, or computer programmers. The current annual cap on the H-1B category is 65,000. Not all H-1B nonimmigrant visas are subject to this annual cap. Approximately 6,800 visas are set aside from the 65,000 each fiscal year for the H-1B1 program under the terms of the legislation implementing the U.S. Chile and U.S. Singapore free trade agreements. In addition, 20,000
Last year, the cap was reached almost instantly and more then 125,000 petitions were filed. USCIS uses a computerized random selection process, a “lottery” to select the lucky 65,000 cap recipients and the additional 20,000 advanced degree H-1B petitions for filing.
Over the past 50 years, the law office of Wildes & Weinberg, P.C. has concentrated its practice in all aspects of U.S. immigration and nationality law, servicing the immigration needs of prominent American and International firms, banks, industrial, financial and manufacturing concerns and law firms in connection with the personnel needs of their foreign national employees. In addition, we have a distinguished clientele and have done substantial immigration work for performing artists, directors, writers, models, actors/actresses, athletes, fine artists, art dealers, curators, and literary agents.
Despite difficulties currently being encountered in dealing with U.S. immigration authorities, we have maintained an extraordinary track record for success in our cases. In addition, our staff is known for its experience and special expertise in processing each foreign national’s case with nothing less than the highest level of professionalism.
Good luck to all those who are entering the lottery!
