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H-1B RFE Case Study: Expert Opinion Letter from Professor of Computer Sciences Denied Last year we had countless clients come to us with specialty occupation RFEs. Some of them came to us with RFEs that they had tried to get overturned with an expert opinion letter, and failed. One such
How to Answer a Double H-1B RFE For Education and Specialty Occupation RFE season is now, and when CIS finds one problem with a petition, they tend to find more. Over the past few years, we have seen a common double RFE involving specialty occupation and education issues. H-1B eligibility
Unique H-1B Issues that Face IT Consulting Firms this RFE Season Recently a lawsuit was filed against USCIS by ITServe Alliance. This is a organization of US IT service companies that had previously petitioned USCIS against new changes to H-1B adjudication rules. The new rules state that for IT consulting
What to Expect and When to Expect it this H-1B Adjudication Season USCIS has completed selecting the 85,000 H-1B petitions to be adjudicated for approval for cap-subject petitions for FY 2020. Those selected that filed for premium processing may begin receiving notice this week as to their approval status with
Common H-1B Issues to Anticipate this Adjudication Season In the next few months, H-1B petitioners and beneficiaries will find out if their petitions have been selected in the lottery, and accepted for approval. We predict this year will follow the trend of the previous few years with an increase in
H-1B Adjudication Season: What to Expect, How to Prepare With H-1B filing season over and the lottery completed on April 11th, 2019, it is now time to wait – and to prepare. USCIS notifies those who have been selected in the H-1B lottery first, and premium processing cases are expected
Ready Plan B Before H-1B RFE Season Begins On April 11th, USCIS completed the H-1B lottery. This year, 201,011 H-1B cap subject petitions were filed from April 1st to April 5th. That’s about 11,000 more petitions than last season. This year, H-1B candidates with advanced degrees of a US Master’s
What Makes an H-1B Job a Specialty Occupation? Over the past few years, H-1B cap-subject petitions have received record-breaking rates of RFEs for Specialty Occupation. Many of these RFEs struck occupations that had never been called into question before. USCIS visa approval trends change every year, and often the RFEs
Case Study: Specialty Occupation RFE Overturned with Some Expert Opinion Letters but not Others The Specialty Occupation RFE has become the new nightmare facing H-1B beneficiaries, their sponsors, and their lawyers. They can be answered successfully with the inclusion of an expert opinion letter, but this does not always work.
International Student Enrollment Critical to the Survival of Community Colleges in the United States We recently wrote a press release regarding the alarming drop in enrollment in community colleges across the country due to dropping high school graduation rates and the low unemployment rate. At the same time, community colleges
