Release Date: April 7, 2017 by uscis.gov WASHINGTON – U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services has reached the congressionally mandated 65,000 visa H-1B cap for fiscal year 2018. USCIS has also received a sufficient number of H-1B petitions to meet the 20,000 visa U.S. advanced degree exemption, also known as the master’s cap. The agency will reject and return filing fees for all unselected cap-subject petitions that are not duplicate filings. USCIS will continue to accept and process petitions that are otherwise exempt from the cap. However, please keep in mind USCIS suspended premium processing April 3 for up to six months for all H-1B petitions, including cap-exempt petitions. Petitions filed on behalf of current H-1B workers who have been counted previously against the cap, and who still retain their cap number, will also not be counted toward the congressionally mandated FY 2018 H-1B cap. USCIS will continue to accept and..

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The first wait is over…USCIS just released a press note indicating that Cap is reached and they have received enough petitions for both regular and Masters quota.  Below is the summary of the press release. Summary of USCIS New Release –  H1B FY 2018 Cap Reached : H1B 2018 Cap Reached for Regular, Masters Quota : USCIS mentioned that it has received enough petitions for both regular quota, which is 65,000 petitions and masters quota, which is 20,000 for fiscal year 2018. Return and Reject Petitions :  USCIS will return and reject all the petitions that are not selected, which are not duplicate filings. Cap Exempt Petitions : USCIS will continue accept all cap exempt H1B petitions that are filed for categories like Extensions, Change of terms of employment,  Change of employers and work concurrently in second H1B position. Premium Processing Suspended : They re-iterated that for up to 6 months..

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At some point in every , the interviewer will ask you to list your greatest strengths. It might seem like a simple question, but not everyone is prepared to give an accurate and impressive answer. Even those who are confident enough to list several strengths often miss the mark. Some come up with great answers, but they don’t know how to deliver them. Their responses may sound arrogant and prideful, rather than humble and self-aware. How you choose to describe your strengths is critical. Even more crucial is understanding that everyone has different strengths. A quality that is a strength for you might be a weakness in someone else. To help you compose a great answer to the strengths question, we’ve compiled this list of 10 strengths for you to consider. We hope to get you thinking, and your ultimate goal should be to evaluate each strength in relation to..

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Everyone agonizes over their  We all worry that if it’s not perfect, we may not get a call from a recruiter. However, when you constantly gather feedback from peers and experts, you may end up making the job search too confusing before you even start. Ultimately, you only want to consider one thing when you write your resume: the reader. The reader isn’t the evil applicant tracking system that throws out your resume according to some algorithm. The reader is a real, live person. Your task is to make it easy for them to understand what you do and what your accomplishment are in 1-2 pages. Trust me, I’ve read my share of resumes. In the last four years, I’ve averaged between 20-35 open technical jobs that I was responsible for filling. In each req, I selected between 5-10 candidates to interview and put forward. This equated to between 200 and 350 people I..

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When you’re truly unhappy in your current job, a new one can’t get here fast enough. Having to drag yourself to the office each day can be the worst. When you’re caught up in the emotion of it all, you begin to wonder why you don’t have a new job yet. Is it a problem with your resume? Your cover letter? Your LinkedIn profile? Panic and frustration set in as the days go by without a new offer arriving. Sometimes, however, it’s none of those things at all. Sometimes, it’s just a matter of time. It’s easy to get swept up in your everyday responsibilities. Whether it’s a current job, children, a side project, or social commitments, there’s always something pressing to do. The gets pushed to the side, like a treadmill bought with the best intentions that sits gathering dust in the corner. But just like physical health, your dream..

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Clients often ask me if they should tell potential employers about certain personal matters. My answer is usually “No.” Many people have never been taught – and have never bothered to learn – what questions an employer can ask during the interview and what questions are off limits. Applicants simply want to be honest and up front with their potential employers, but they need to err on the side of caution. Below are five common things that may cause employers – particularly small business owners – to pause when an applicant reveals them: 1. Pregnancy If you are not visibly pregnant, do not reveal that you are pregnant during the interview. Training an employee is an expensive endeavor, and many small business owners cannot afford to provide maternity leave. What’s more, when a pregnant employee is away from work for doctors’ appointments or on unpaid maternity leave, the rest of the..

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I see a lot of burned out employees – people who are emotionally, relationally, and physically worn down. Responsible individuals who have “given all they’ve got” (usually in multiple areas of their lives) and don’t have much, if anything, left to give. Being burned out doesn’t have much to do with the type of work you do. Burned out employees exist everywhere: medical settings, schools, law enforcement, insurance companies, long-term care facilities and hospices, financial institutions, mining companies, and intercity social service agencies, just to name a few. How can I tell they’re worn out? Here are the symptoms: A general lack of energy. They look tired. They act tired. They sigh a lot. If they sit down, they look like they would love to stay there for hours (or go take a nap if they could). A sense of frantic busyness. Even though they are tired, they tell you what..

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Since the time he was little, , photographer, and content creator  has loved making videos. It’s no surprise, then, that the dearly departed six-second video platform Vine caught his eye in the summer of 2013. That’s when Hammontree, along with his cousins Josh Saenz and Ryan Fenwick, began making and sharing videos on the platform. “I think we were camping, and we just started making videos,” Hammontree says, recalling his “favorite story of all time.” “It was just a hobby. We had always loved making videos, and this was the first app that made it super easy to make videos and be yourself.” Hammontree was 15 at the time, and he, Saenz, and Fenwick were questing for “likes.” None of them expected to be launching careers. “We put it in the comedy category, and we used all these different hashtags to see how many likes we could get,” Hammontree says...

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Background:For many years, since the H4 visa program inception, H-4 holders have not been provided with any work authorization. This changed on May 26, 2015 when USCIS passed the rule. The H4 visa dependent spouses were eligible for work authorization EAD provided the H-1B spouse: Have an approved I-140, which is the immigration petition for foreign citizens to get Green Card or Permanent Residency in USA. Have H1B visa status extended beyond 6 years under AC21 Act, which allows H1B holders seeking Green Card to work and stay in USA beyond 6 years, if their Green Card or Permanent Residency Application is Pending. Soon after the was enacted, two things happened:1. Thousands of H-4 spouses applied for H4 visa EAD  ( Employment Authorization Document) and got their first chance to work in US after many years of staying at home.2. A lawsuit was filed against the H4 EAD rule to..