Intel Loses Bid to Have Late H-1B Visa Petitions Reconsidered

Intel Corp’s attempt to have several untimely H-1B visa petitions re-evaluated by US Citizenship and Immigration Services was rejected by a federal district court.

The Santa Clara, Calif.-based tech company argued that USCIS provided insufficient notice that five workers were selected in the annual lottery for the specialty occupation visas.

But Northern District of California Judge P. Casey Pitts found that the agency provided enough notice to comply with the Immigration and Nationality Act and its own regulations in a Wednesday order approving a motion for summary judgment.

Intel had registrations for more than 1,000 workers in the fiscal year ...