Cleveland Metropolitan Bar Association Journal • 2ND MARCH 2020
By now, human resources professionals, legal counsel, and other corporate stakeholders in any business connected to the H-1B visa program should be well aware that United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) intends to implement a new system this year — indeed this quarter — for filing H-1B visa petitions subject to the annual H-1B visa cap. This ostensibly well-intentioned new system will replace the prior industry practice of preparing hundreds of thousands of complete H-1B visa petitions and submitting them to USCIS each April 1—the official start of what has become known as the H-1B filing season.
