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H1B Quota Reached

12/18/09. Summary:

USCIS has announced that the H-1B Quota is now full for this fiscal year, ending September 30, 2010.  Some employers and employees are exempt from this quota.

For those companies not exempt from the quota (and who are employing employees who are not exempt from the quota), the earliest USCIS will accept H1B petitions will be April 1, 2010 for employment beginning no earlier than October 1, 2010.


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New Visa Application Form DS-160 is Replacing DS-156 and DS-157

12/18/09. Summary: The U.S. Department of State's Bureau of Consular Affairs recently announced that it will continue to roll-out form DS-160, a completely web-based nonimmigrant visa (NIV) application form, worldwide by May 2010 to replace NIV application forms DS-156 and DS-157. 
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Employment Based Quota Backlog Predictions

12/18/09. Summary:

The U.S. State Department writes the following in its December 2009 Visa Bulletin:

"Based on current indications of demand, the best case scenarios for cut-off dates which will be reached by the end of FY-2010 are as follows:

Employment Second:

  • China: July through December 2005
  • India: February through early March 2005 (it may progress as far as December 2005 if there are unused numbers from the EB-2 worldwide quota, even though it may exceed India's annual per-country EB-2 limit)

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