The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) agreed to pay $22,000 in civil penalties for improper postings on its website (www.PedJobs.org).  The Office of Special Counsel investigated based upon the employment postings for doctors, ...

On March 4, 2011, the American Immigration Lawyers Association reported that USCIS will soon release a memo clarifying that teaching hospitals affiliated with a medical school are exempt from the cap ...

The H-1b is the most widely used nonimmigrant status for employment in the U.S. It is also the nonimmigrant status with the most costly government fees for employers, including a ...

The USCIS has announced that it has reached the H-1b cap for fiscal year 2011.  As such, all H-1b petitions subject to the H-1b cap are not eligible for filing ...

The USCIS is very near to reaching the H-1b cap. As of Friday, the USCIS had receipted 60,700 H-1b petitions.  That leaves only 4,300 cap-subject petitions available for this fiscal ...

The U.S. Consulate in Mumbai, India had errneously reported that for the month of February 2011, the EB-2 Category for India will become current. http://mumbai.usconsulate.gov/cut_off_dates.html While this would be extremely ...

On January 11, 2011, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a unanimous ruling that medical residents, those engaged in paid employment of 40 or more hours per week, must pay Federal ...

As discussed during the HLG Phone Conference today, the new H-1b form will become effective on December 23, 2010. For a copy of the new I-129 form, visit http://www.uscis.gov/. The ...

The U.S. Department of Labor, Foreign Labor Certification Unit, just released its 2009 annual report, covering visa statistics from October 1, 2008 to September 30, 2009. The report showed a ...

The USCIS has not yet received half of the H-1b petitions it is allowed to accept in a fiscal year. The latest report from USCIS released today shows that USCIS ...