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No More Employment Preference Cases for FY-2011, Reports Department of State

16 Sep 2011

The Department of State has just posted an urgent notice to USCIS offices that no Employment Preference Cases for the remainder of Fiscal Year 2011 remain. According to the Department of State, there has been an extremely large amount of demand and processing of Employment preference cases for this fiscal year and the FY-2011 Employment annual limit has now been reached.

Numbers will again be available for all Employment categories on October 1, 2011 and will be limited by the FY-2012 annual numerical limitations for each category.

15 May 2012

New Interim Final Rule Further Clarifies Requirements of Summer Work Travel Visa Program

On April 26, 2011, the Department of State published an interim final rule to amend the requirements of the Summer Work Travel category of the Exchange Visitor visa program.

15 May 2012

Homeland Security Expands List of STEM Degree Programs

The Department of Homeland Security recently announced it is expanding the list of science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) designated degree programs that will qualify graduates in the US on student visas for optional practical training extensions.