10 Years of H-1B Policies Overturned and the Path Forward

We discuss changes to how the employer-employee relationships is determined and the shortened approvals for H1B visas. How the ITServe settlement invalidated itinerary regulation, specialty occupation and the model for how immigration denies cases.

USCIS and ITServe settlement rescind the 2018 Contracts and Itinerary memorandum in its entirety. 

USCIS also agreed to reopen and adjudicate individual agencies' decisions on H-1B adjudications that were subject to the ITServe Alliance lawsuit. 

Current regulatory language requiring the employer to provide an analysis of the employer-employee relationship under common law. 

#USCIS will no longer issue H1-B visas with validity periods shorter than the time period requested by the #H1-B petitioner without explanation. 

The path immigration could take.