Editorial Team FAMILY-SPONSORED PREFERENCES First: (F1) Unmarried Sons and Daughters of U.S. Citizens: 23,400 plus any numbers not required for fourth preference. Second: Spouses and Children, and Unmarried Sons and Daughters of Permanent Residents: 114,200, plus the number (if any) by which the worldwide family preference level exceeds 226,000, plus any unused first preference numbers: A. (F2A) Spouses and Children … Read more
EMPLOYMENT-BASED PREFERENCES First: Priority Workers: 28.6% of the worldwide employment-based preference level, plus any numbers not required for fourth and fifth preferences. Second: Members of the Professions Holding Advanced Degrees or Persons of Exceptional Ability: 28.6% of the worldwide employment-based preference level, plus any numbers not required by first preference. Third: Skilled Workers, Professionals, and Other … Read more
About the prevailing wage for H-1B, H-1B1, E-3 Visa and PERM foreign labor certification petitions. flcdatacenter.com is a website built by the State of Utah under contract by the Department of Labor. The wage data is made available to the public and may be used in other applications. We use the same data as flcdatacenter.com, … Read more
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) today announced a notice of proposed rulemaking that would require petitioners seeking to file H-1B cap-subject petitions to pay a $10 fee for each electronic registration they submit to USCIS. Because USCIS must expend resources to implement and maintain the H-1B registration system, and because USCIS operations are funded by fees … Read more
A little background on the FLC prevailing wage… The flc prevailing wage is required by employers who file PERM, H-1B, H-1B1, H-2b and E-3 employment-based petitions. The requirement to pay prevailing wages as a minimum is true of most employment based visa programs involving the Department of Labor. In addition, the H-1B, H-1B1, and E-3 … Read more
From uscis.gov on 7/19/19. WASHINGTON — U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) is revising the current naturalization test with improvements to ensure it continues to serve as an accurate measure of a naturalization applicant’s civics knowledge and that it reflects best practices in adult education assessments. The goal is to create a meaningful, uniform, and efficient test … Read more
If you want to help immigrants fearing persecution, it’s important you raise awareness about their rights and better understand them, too. Groups like United We Dream have provided infographics that spell out what to do if an ICE raid takes place around you. If an ICE agent appears at an individual’s home, United We Dream urges immigrants … Read more
A federal court judge has thrown out a lawsuit by an Indian technology worker who claimed she was illegally denied an H-1B visa, ruling in favor of the federal government and its claim that the woman’s planned job did not meet the definition of a “specialty occupation” required for the visa. Usha Sagarwala sued U.S. … Read more
