ImmInfo Newsletter
Contents   Vol. 6, No. 1,
January 15, 2012

  • Annual office retreat - office closed

  • ImmInfo.com has been updated and revised

  • Expansion of AC I-140 processing in India

  • Rapid EB cutoff date advances: What does this mean?

  • How to beat retrogression: AC I-140

  • The FY 2013 H1B quota: How long will it last?
 

 

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Annual office retreat - office closed

We will be closed Friday, January 13th through Monday, January 16th. We will reopen for business at 9 a.m. on Tuesday, January 17th. The office will be closed for our annual office retreat. This year, we are taking everyone on a cruise to Mexico. We will use this time to train staff and build team camaraderie.

ImmInfo.com has been updated and revised

We have updated and revised the ImmInfo.com site. In addition to the new look and feel, we have fixed the bad links that we discovered. We also updated and expanded the existing articles as well as added quite a few new articles. We invite you to visit the site and explore what is there.
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Expansion of AC I-140 processing in India

Effective January 1, 2012, all immigrant visa processing in India will be done at two offices only: New Delhi and Mumbai. With Mumbai taking over the immigrant visa processing for Chennai, this means that attorney certified I-140 processing will be available to substantially more applicants than had been so previously.
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Rapid EB cutoff date advances: What does this mean?

The last few months have seen substantial advances in the China/India EB2 cutoff dates. Many people are puzzled and can’t understand why cutoff dates are suddenly moving forward after so many years of slow movement. The answer is demand. We published an article on the ImmInfo site some time back that explains the overall mechanics of cutoff date movement.
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How to beat retrogression: AC I-140

It now looks as though we are going to see the China/India EB2 cutoff date advance for at least the next few months. At some point, however, these advances will stop and the cutoff date will retrogress – most likely back to somewhere in 2009. While it is one thing to be able to get a green card application on file when your priority date is current, it is quite another to get the USCIS to complete the processing of your case before retrogression. There is, however, an elegant solution for many: AC I-140 processing.
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The FY 2013 H1B quota: How long will it last?

“New” H1B petition filings have been accelerating for more than the past six months. This new demand has been attributed to a variety of causes, but the result is that the end of 2011 saw employers filing “new” H1B petitions at a must higher rate than had previously been the case. If this continues, we could see the FY 2013 H1B quota exhausted by early- to mid-Summer.
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