H1B

Do I Need to Have H1B to Start the Green Card Application Process?

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  We at North America Immigration Law Group usually receive hundreds of inquiries regarding employment-based immigration every week. Many potential clients have been asking whether they need to have an H-1B visa to receive a green card.  So we would like to clarify that an H-1B visa is not a prerequisite for any type of a green card. In fact, we have hundreds, if not thousands of clients who obtained their green cards while holding visas such as F-1, F-1 OPT, J-1, B1/B2 or TN.   A Read more [...]

DHS Proposed Rule to Extend Employment Authorization to Spouses of Certain H-1B Workers

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May 7, 2014 Yesterday, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security announced that it will publish two proposed rules this week.  One of the rules proposes to extend employment authorization to the dependent spouses of certain H-1B workers.  In a press release dated May 6, 2014, DHS stated, “The change proposed by DHS, would allow H-4 dependent spouses of certain H-1B nonimmigrant workers to request employment authorization, as long as the H-1B worker has already started the process of seeking Read more [...]

H-1B Alternatives for Individuals Not Selected in the Lottery

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  This year, the USCIS received roughly 172,500 H-1B petitions to fill 85,000 cap-subject slots for fiscal year (FY) 2015.  This means that those subject to the cap and not selected in the lottery will have to wait until April 1, 2015 to apply for an H-1B visa, hoping that their petition is selected in this lottery.  Over the past decade, it has become increasingly more difficult to obtain H-1B status.  The difficulty is largely due to this numerical limitation, or “cap,” imposed on Read more [...]