H-1B
U.S. Immigration: Filing for H-1B workers
March 07, 2010By Attorneys Robert L. Reeves and May Zhang The April 1st H-1B filing date is approaching fast. As discussed in our previous articles, the H-1B visa is subject to an annual cap of 65,000. An additional 20,000 H1B visas are allocated to alien workers...
Foreign Workers and Navigating the Rough Seas of U.S. Immigration
September 04, 2009By Attorneys Robert L. Reeves and Jeff L. Khurgel Foreign Workers seeking employment in the United States are currently experiencing burdensome scrutiny on the part of some overreaching immigration officers, lengthy backlogs, and senseless allocation...
Immigration Service Inspecting H-1B Employers
August 21, 2009By Attorneys Robert L. Reeves and Joseph I. Elias The Immigration Service has recently begun investigating H-1B employers to identify fraudulent petitions. Employers are reporting privately contracted investigators arriving unannounced at worksites...
U.S. working visa: H-1B cap - prepare those forms now
February 15, 2009By Attorneys Robert L. Reeves and Joseph I. Elias (California, USA) Once again, the immigration community is bracing itself for a historical and unprecedented exhaustion of the H-1B cap. Employers can petition H-1B workers for the October 1, 2009 start...