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I just heard that premium processing is ending for H1-B's within few weeks.....
Is it true?
----- Lawyer Carl Shusterman has posted that premium processing may be stopped in 3-4 weeks for H1 premium processing. Read the news tracker on www.shusterman.com
Is it true?
----- Lawyer Carl Shusterman has posted that premium processing may be stopped in 3-4 weeks for H1 premium processing. Read the news tracker on www.shusterman.com
Carl Shusterman's connections with USCIS are far better than mine. However, on the same day that Carl Shusterman published this, the following was posted on the AILA website:
In response to reports that the H-1B cap is near being
exhausted, AILA-USCIS Liaison Chair Bob Deasy contacted
William R. Yates, Deputy Director, Citizenship and Immigration
Services, for clarification. Here is an abstract of Mr. Yates' reply:
"We are not near the cap at this time. As I stated last week we
will release information at the end of January regarding where
we stand and at that time will decide whether we need to notify
customers of a projected "cap date." Of course it is theoretically
possible that we could reach the cap by the end of the calendar
year but we would have to receive record levels of filings... I
still believe that we will hit the cap this spring, but I won't be
more specific until I see the numbers in January."
Seems inconsistent with Mr. Shusterman's claim that the H-1B cap will be reached in January or February.
In response to reports that the H-1B cap is near being
exhausted, AILA-USCIS Liaison Chair Bob Deasy contacted
William R. Yates, Deputy Director, Citizenship and Immigration
Services, for clarification. Here is an abstract of Mr. Yates' reply:
"We are not near the cap at this time. As I stated last week we
will release information at the end of January regarding where
we stand and at that time will decide whether we need to notify
customers of a projected "cap date." Of course it is theoretically
possible that we could reach the cap by the end of the calendar
year but we would have to receive record levels of filings... I
still believe that we will hit the cap this spring, but I won't be
more specific until I see the numbers in January."
Seems inconsistent with Mr. Shusterman's claim that the H-1B cap will be reached in January or February.
Sometime back I read the newletter from Attorney Murthy citing an AILA meeting that 20000 cases from 2003 would be counted against this year's cap. See http://www.murthy.com/ukh1cap.html
I read today the AILA newsletter (see http://www.shusterman.com/pdf/connect1203.pdf) which states that 11000 cases were pending cases from 2003, which would be counted towards the cap this year.
Why such a discrepancy? One begins to wonder whether attorneys are creating an unnecessary panic that the cap would be reached much earlier, and thereby trying to get some business done early? This is especially bad for foreign medical graduates who hope to start their residency on a H1b visa as the programs will have to decide by Feb end whom to select and they wont choose the H1B visa seekers because of misinformation.
I read today the AILA newsletter (see http://www.shusterman.com/pdf/connect1203.pdf) which states that 11000 cases were pending cases from 2003, which would be counted towards the cap this year.
Why such a discrepancy? One begins to wonder whether attorneys are creating an unnecessary panic that the cap would be reached much earlier, and thereby trying to get some business done early? This is especially bad for foreign medical graduates who hope to start their residency on a H1b visa as the programs will have to decide by Feb end whom to select and they wont choose the H1B visa seekers because of misinformation.
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