| | H-1B Online Registration System Announced On December 6, 2019, the USCIS announced it had completed a "successful pilot testing phase" and would implement an electronic H-1B online registration process starting on March 1, 2020. The announcement states as follows: "Under this new process, employers seeking H-1B workers subject to the cap, or their authorized representatives, will complete a registration process that requires only basic information about their company and each requested worker. USCIS will open an initial registration period from March 1 through March 20, 2020. The H-1B random selection process, if needed, will then be run on those electronic registrations. Only those with selected registrations will be eligible to file H-1B cap-subject petitions." If needed? During each of the past few years, employers filed around 200,000 initial petitions for 85,000 H-1B visas. This means that well over 50% of the H-1B workers that employers would like to hire are prevented from being employed in the U.S. While this may be great news for Canada, Australia, the UK, etc., it makes it difficult for U.S. employers to hire talented foreign-born professionals, even those who earned their degrees in the U.S. As a result of this misguided policy, the next Google, Facebook and Amazon may be developed abroad rather than in the U.S. Read more...
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