On Friday, April 5, 2013, USCIS announced that they had received a sufficient number of H-1B cap petitions to determine that they met the H-1B cap numbers for both the regular H-1B cap (65,000) and the advanced degree H-1B cap numbers (20,000).
As anyone who has been closely following the news in the last couple of weeks knows, immigration reform is front and center on the national stage. Many people have reached out to me to ask me what I think about it and/or the chances of enactment. For the record, the vast majority of my clients are legal immigrants who are processing their petitions through employment/investment and family petitions. These are some of the questions they are asking:
On January 15, 2009, Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced that upgraded biometric technology is in place at major U.S. ports of entry, and most international visitors should expect to use the new technology when they enter the United States. DHS's US-VISIT program began upgrading its biometric technology from a two- to a 10-fingerprint collection standard in 2007 to make the entry process faster and more accurate for all visitors.
The Administrative Appeals Office (AAO) held on January 9, 2009, that a 5-year Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery (M.B.B.S.) degree from India is the equivalent of a U.S. Doctor of Medicine (M.D.) degree and discussed evidence of degree equivalency.