Month: January 2008

The USCIS has released its weekly Application and Receipting Update for 12/31/07.  All receipting delays now seem to be for family petitions or Naturalization applications.

Maged Rost is now accepting clients who would like to apply for cap-subject H-1B status for FY 2009.  As many of you are undoubtedly aware, this year’s 65,000 cap was exhausted on the first day cases were accepted for filing.  In fact thousands of petitions were rejected even though they were received on April 2, 2007 (April 1, 2007 was a Sunday).

For those who wish to commence H-1B employment on October 1, 2008, the petition may be filed as of April 1, 2008 (and preferably no later as all available cap-subject petitions will likely again be exhausted in a single day).  If your organization would like to petition for foreign professionals, it should begin organizing the process early.  Please call or e-mail us for additional information.  www.magedrost.com.

According to the Dallas Morning News as quoted in an article on wfaa.com:  “He breaks the law by his very presence. He hustles to do hard work many Americans won’t, at least not at the low wages he accepts. The American consumer economy depends on him. America as we have known it for generations may not survive him.”