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Each year, thousands of employers file H-1B visa petitions for foreign nationals seeking to obtain temporary work authorization in professional jobs which requires at least a Bachelors' Degree in a specific field. On April 7, 2017, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced it reached the congressionally mandated cap for H-1B visas for the 2018 fiscal year and would institute a lottery to select petitions for adjudication. The number of H-1B petitions filed in 2017 declined for the first time since 2013, but the number of filings were still more than double the number of ...
Posted in: Business Visas - H, L, E and Beyond, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), Other Temporary Visas, Trump Administration and Immigration Impact
Tags: buy American, current regulations, DHS, employers, foreign labor, fraud and abuse enforcement, H-1B visas, hire American, ICE, immigration filings, Trump, USCIS