Immigration attorneys are trying to get to the bottom of what exactly the government looks for in skilled foreign worker applications.
The American Immigration Lawyers Association June 11 filed a lawsuit in federal district court to force U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services to respond to two Freedom of Information Act requests related to H-1B visas. The agency didn’t respond to those requests by the deadline required by the law, AILA says.
The organization of 15,000 attorneys and law professors sought the information after noticing spikes in requests for evidence (RFEs) and denials of H-1B petitions starting in mid-2017.
The USCIS ...
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