The H-1B visa program is a vital process that allows highly skilled, specialized, academic, or otherwise gifted people to enter the United States and work here for up to three years. This period can be extended based on certain criteria and circumstances. Every year,...
The crawfish industry in Louisiana possibly faces adversity due to Congressional limits on H-2B visas. These limitations amount to only 66,000 H-2B permits issued per year. These limitations could prevent enough workers coming from Central America and Mexico in...
Imagine you are an employer and you are opening up some positions to improve your workplace and make your company more efficient. After the resumes come in and a few rounds of interviews are completed, one of the people you are considering hiring is not a US citizen...
We have talked about employment visas and high-skill visas in the past on this blog, usually in a way that describes the positives of the visas and what opportunities are created for the people who come to the United States on these visas. Today, we're going to look...
This world of ours has become so small, and we mean that in a good way. Advanced air travel, the internet, cellphones: all of these things have promoted an era where people can connect and remain connected for long periods of time, and these connections are even...
A few weeks ago, technology-based companies were in the news for encouraging lawmakers to make H-1B visas easier to obtain for highly skilled workers. Now, some of the biggest companies in the United States are trying to make it easier for lower-skilled workers to...
If you need to file new H-1Bs this week is your last chance. The next H-1B work visa filing season begins April 1, 2014 for petitions subject to the visa limitation of 78,200 new cases. There will most certainly be a lottery for the small number of H visas available,...