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The Administrative Appeals Office (AAO) provides an updated ‘processing times’ in table form, with information on FY2022 second quarterly completions; January 2022 to March 2022. These figures indicate the time that it takes from the date the case is received at AAO coming from the Service Center or District Office to completion.

AAO Processing Times were released with processing dates as of 4/5/22. If you filed an appeal, please review the link below to determine the applicable processing time associated with your particular case.

Note: Starting with the January 2017 Administrative Appeals Office (AAO) Processing Times Report, the AAO has changed how it presents processing time data. The AAO will now provide, by form type, the total number of case completions for the fiscal year quarter and the percentage completed within 180 days, cases completed divided by their projected case goal.

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The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the Department of Labor (DOL) announced on Thursday, March 31, 2022, that they would be adding 35,000 additional H-2B temporary nonagricultural worker visas for the second half of fiscal year (FY) 2022. These additional visas will be set aside for U.S. employers seeking to employ qualified workers on or after April 1, 2022, through Sept. 30, 2022. 

23,500 of these additional visas will be available for returning workers, who received an H-2B visa or were otherwise granted H-2B status, during one of the last three fiscal years, the remaining 11,500 visas are for nationals of Haiti, Honduras, Guatemala, and El Salvador. For more information please review the USCIS News Release, “DHS and DOL to Supplement the H-2B Cap with Additional Visas for Second Half of Fiscal Year 2022”. 

 
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Question #1 – Advance Parole (AP)

If my Advance Parole is about to expire and I do not plan to travel outside of the US within the next year, do I have to renew it?

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USCIS has moved their date to dispose of E-Verify records older than 10 years old to May 6, 2022. All E-Verify records dated on or before December 31, 2011, will be removed from their database. If you would like to download your case information from their Historic Records Report please do so before May 5, 2022. For more information and instructions on downloading your Historic Records Report please review their Fact Sheet – E-Verify Records Retention and Disposal which includes downloading instructions. 

 
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USCIS, 4/1/22, E-Verify News Email: 

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U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced on Wednesday, March 30th, as part of their credit card payment pilot program, the USCIS service centers are now accepting credit card payments using Form G-1450, Authorization for Credit Card Transactions, for all their forms. The future goal of this USCIS pilot program is to at some point accept digital payments using credit cards at all their service centers. The program that started at the Nebraska Service Center will expand at that location first before being introduced to other service centers. For more information, please see the USCIS web page Pay with a Credit Card. 

For more details, please read the USCIS news alert, “USCIS Service Center Expands Credit Card Payment Pilot Program to All Forms”! 

 
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We wanted to find a new way to engage our reader base. Every other Friday, we will post the ten (10) best/most frequently asked questions received during the week from our h1bvisalawyerblog, Facebook, and Twitter readers. We will answer those questions and provide the Q&A on our H-1B Visa Lawyer Blog.

If you have a burning question, are seeking assistance with a difficult immigration related case, wish to discuss your views on Comprehensive Immigration Reform, DREAMers, Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, priority dates, the monthly visa bulletin, adjustment applications, etc., please contact us by submitting your question/comment/viewpoint in our comment box provided on our H-1B Visa Lawyer Blog.

Our next “Q & A Forum” will take place this Friday, April 8, 2022. Act now and submit your questions!

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U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced on Tuesday, March 29th, that it has received enough electronic registrations during the initial registration period to reach the fiscal year (FY) 2023 H-1B cap, including the master’s cap. They stated that selections were made randomly from among those applicants that correctly registered. USCIS has notified all prospective petitioners with selected registrations that they are eligible to file an H-1B cap-subject petition for the beneficiary named in selected registration. Registrants’ online accounts will now show one of the following statuses for each registration: Submitted, Selected, Denied or Invalidated-Failed Payment! 

For more information, please read the USCIS news alert, “FY 2023 H-1B Cap Season Updates”! 

 
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USCIS announced that it has received enough H-2B petitions to reach the congressionally mandated cap (33,000) for the second half of FY 2022. February 25, 2022 is now the “final receipt date” for cap-subject H-2B worker requesting employment start dates before October 1st. The “final receipt date” is the date on which USCIS determined that it has received enough cap-subject petitions to reach the limit of 33,000 H-2B workers for the second half of FY2022, for a total of 66,000 for the year. 

USCIS will reject new H-2B petitions that were received after February 25, 2022 and that request an employment start date before October 1, 2022, but there are some exceptions! 

The exceptions are listed below:

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