Blog Posts in April, 2018

Why Immigration Courts Are Deeply Flawed

In a recent episode of Last Week Tonight , host John Oliver took on a serious topic: the United States’ dysfunctional immigration court system. The segment included several former and current immigration judges who described the horrors of immigration court, even going so far as to say that “[they’re] doing death penalty cases in traffic court setting.” That’s correct, the results of an ...

USCIS Reaches H-1B Cap for FY 2019

The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has reached the congressionally-mandated H-1B visa cap of 65,000 for the fiscal year 2019. In addition, the agency has also received a sufficient number of H-1B petitions to fulfill the 20,000-visa U.S. advanced degree exemption, which is known as the “master’s cap.” Keep in mind, petitions filed for current H-1B workers who have been counted ...