As the dust settles on the H-1B lottery for 2024, many individuals and their sponsoring employers find themselves wrestling with
As the H-1B lottery results are soon to be released, Canada offers several programs that may be of interest to foreign workers who are not selected.
An overview of Canada’s Tech Talent Strategy, focusing on the current status of it’s implementation and consideration what the future might hold for Canada’s innovation goals.
Amidst H-1B lottery uncertainties, consider transfers to Canada as an alternative. Discover how a seamless cross-border transfer can retain skilled talent and offer long-term benefits for employees and companies alike.
The Government of Canada has just launched Canada’s first-ever Tech Talent Strategy.
On Tuesday, March 29th, USCIS announced that they had received enough electronic registrations during the initial registration period to reach the fiscal year (FY) 2023 H-1B numerical allocations (H-1B cap), including the advanced degree exemption (master’s cap). The Lottery was conducted as a random selection of properly submitted registrations and the myUSCIS Portal has been updated. Learn more in this blog.
On Wednesday, a California federal judge struck down a controversial Trump-era rule which aimed to change the H1-B lottery system
US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced on July 29, 2021 that it conducted a second round of H-1B registration selections
In a reversal from USCIS’ usual opaqueness on the H-1B Cap Process, the Service recently offered insights into exactly how
Takeaways: Presidential Proclamation 10052, suspending H-1B, H-2B, J and L admissions, expired March 31, 2021. Ongoing 2019 novel coronavirus (“COVID-19”) public
Quick Takeaways Restrictions on travelers from Schengen Area countries, the UK/Ireland, and Brazil, set to expire on January 26, 2021,
In November 2020, we reported on the Trump administration’s Notice of Proposed Rule Making, announcing a major change in the process
Late on December 31, 2020, President Trump issued a proclamation continuing Proclamations 10014 and 10052, which suspended the entry of certain immigrants and
With a new administration, comes the hope by many, that there will be changes to restrictive immigration policies implemented by
The Trump Administration has announced a major change in the process for filing cap subject H-1B petitions. The proposed rule would replace
On October 7, 2020 The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced an Interim Final Rule (IFR) designed to tighten
Second round of selections underway for those Registrations still on file from March 2020. At this time it is unclear
Quick Takeaways: Changes now in effect. Canadians and Bermudians excluded from Executive Order by virtue of being visa exempt. All
Quick Takeaways: Changes go into effect 12:01AM EST on June 24, 2020 and unless lifted or enjoined will remain in