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Washington, DC 888 Seventeenth St., NW Suite 700 Washington, DC 20006 Voice: (202) 463-4911 Fax: (202) 463-6177 Click here for directions Rockville, MD 20 Courthouse Square Suite 220 Rockville, Maryland 20850 Voice: (240) 456-0000 Fax: (240) 456-0002 Click here for directions
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Nankin & Verma PLLC has been informed by AILA that as of August 4, 2004, the United States Citizenship and Immigration Service had received 40,000 H-1B petitions subject to the Fiscal Year 2005 cap. Out of that 40,000, there have already been approvals of 21,000 H-1B visas, while the rest are pending adjudication. We will continue to monitor the situation, and will post updates as soon as they are available. Aug 23, 2004- H-1B Extension Beyond 6 Year The
CIS Service Center Operations office, “SCOPS,” recently reversed its
previous position that an application for extension of H-1B status beyond 6
years filed before a Labor Certification Application has been pending 365
days, would be acceptable. SCOPS now advises that a request for an H-1B
extension beyond the sixth year, under the 2002 DOJ Authorization
legislation that amended AC21, must be filed no less than 365 days after the
date that the labor certification application was filed. If it is filed
before the 365 days have run, it is subject to denial, even if the extension
would not take effect until after the 365 days. Copyright © 2005 by Nankin & Verma PLLC. All rights reserved. Please click here for the full disclaimer. |
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