This newsletter is never sent out unsolicited and is only sent to people who have subscribed. UNSUBSCRIBE instructions can be found at http://www.visalaw.com/subscribe2.html. Thecomplete newsletter will also be posted shortly at http://www.visalaw.com/bulletin/ if you do not receive each part. Please do not send requests to resend individual parts. Siskind's Immigration Bulletin - EMERGENCY ALERT - H-1B Cap March 17, 1999 E-mail subscribers as of February 26, 1998: 19,978 persons (50 states/125 countries) Published by Greg Siskind, partner at the Immigration Law Offices of Siskind, Susser, Haas & Devine, Attorneys at Law; telephone: 800-748-3819, 901-737-3194 or 615-345-0225; facsimile: 901-737-3837 or 615-843-0424, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED], WWW home page: http://www.visalaw.com. SSHD serves immigration clients throughout the world from its offices in the US, Canada and the People's Republic of China. To schedule a telephone or in-person consultation with the firm, go to http://www.visalaw.com/intake.html. To receive a free e-mail subscription to Siskind's Immigration Bulletin, fill out the form at http://www.visalaw.com/subscribe2.html or send an email message to mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message in the body of the e-mail "subscribe your e-mail address". TO UNSUBSCRIBE GO TO http://www.visalaw.com/subscribe2.html. To subscribe to the free Siskind's Immigration Professional Newsletter, send e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and tell us your name, location, e-mail address, and the type of immigration occupation you are in (immigration lawyer, paralegal, foreign student advisor, journalist, Congressional staffer, etc.). _______________________________________________________________________ SPONSORED BY VISAJOBS.COM - THE BETTER WAY TO FIND A JOB IN AMERICA (http://www.visajobs.com) - All listing employers willing to undertake the visa application process for immigrants. ______________________________________________________________________ Sources tell us that the H-1B visa cap has been reached for the current fiscal year and that applications filed now will not be able to be adjudicated until October 1, 1999. The INS has approved 80,963 cases to this point, but indicates that there are more than 50,000 cases still awaiting adjudication. Only 34,000 visas remain available, so of the cases already filed, many will not be approved for this fiscal year. The INS is expected to soon make an announcement on this matter and we have not been able to receive official confirmation yet. One point that is surely to be contentious in the next several days is how the INS will decide which cases get to be approved this year and which ones will not. The Vermont and Nebraska Service Centers both process cases considerably faster than the service centers in Texas and California. Our sources tell us that the INS is considering a plan to give preference to cases filed in Texas and California rather than relying on a system where cases are counted against the cap in the order approved (which would presumably favor applications filed in Vermont and Nebraska). Because the INS has yet to announce the cap has been reached, it still may be advantageous to file applications in order to have them pending for approval at the beginning of the 2000 fiscal year in October. Many believe that the 2000 cap could be reached in the first few months of the coming fiscal year. We will update readers on our web site at http://www.visalaw.com as news on this important issue develops. We will also report more extensively on this topic in our next newsletter which should be posted at the end of this month. Regards, Gregory Siskind, Attorney at Law ************************************************************************** Siskind, Susser, Haas & Devine - Serving clients throughout America 800/748-3819 (voice) * (630) 604-9306 (fax) Email:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * http://www.visalaw.com/ Siskind's Immigration Bulletin newsletter: To subscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message "subscribe [your email address]". To unsubscribe, send the message "unsubscribe [your emailaddress]" to the same address. **************************************************************************
SISKIND'S IMMIGRATION BULLETIN - EMERGENCY ALERT - H-1B CAP
Gregory SiskindAttorney at Law Wed, 17 Mar 1999 20:39:13 -0500
