Gardner and Taylor is a boutique business and family immigration law firm located in Salt Lake City, Utah.
As of yesterday, USCIS announced that it had returned all of the unselected cap-subject H-1B petitions submitted for FY2016. This means that of the roughly 233,000 petitions that were filed, after the 20,000 advanced degree cap petitions and 65,000 general category petitions were selected, the remaining 148,000 unselected petitions should have now been returned to […]
Yesterday, USCIS announced new filing guidance for some H-4 dependent spouses desiring employment authorization. Per USCIS, the guidance is only applicable to certain H-4 dependent spouses of H-1B visa holders: H-4 dependent spouses may apply for employment authorization if the H-1B nonimmigrant: Is the principal beneficiary of an approved Form I-140, Immigrant Petition for Alien […]
USCIS announced last week that it had completed the H-1B visa petition lottery process for FY 2016. This means that of the estimated 233,000 H-1B petitions that were filed, all of the 20,000 advanced degree cap petitions and all of the 65,000 general category petitions were selected for review. USCIS is now in the process […]
Imagine a scenario where Steve Jobs is born in Copenhagen, Denmark. After coming to study in the United States and finishing his Bachelor’s degree, he secures a job with a Silicon Valley startup. Because Steve is not a U.S. citizen, the startup applies for an H-1B visa for him. The number of H-1B visa petitions […]
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced today that it conducted the H-1B visa lottery earlier today. The agency announced last week that it had received enough H-1B petitions to reach the 65,000 visa statutory cap, as well as the 20,0000 visa advanced degree cap for FY2016. USCIS received about 233,000 H-1B petitions during this […]
