H-1B Wage Policy Raised Questions Within Agency, Documents Show

Immigration agency officers still had questions about how to implement a 2017 H-1B wage policy months after it was put in place, the American Immigration Lawyers Association found in documents obtained from the government.

The lack of internal guidance at the USCIS caused delays in the processing of thousands of H-1B specialty occupation visa petitions and resulted in reports of inconsistent agency communications and decisions, said Diane Rish, AILA’s associate director of government relations.

The newly released documents reveal what immigration attorneys have been saying for years: that U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services’ closer attention to wage levels and whether ...