May 21, 2020
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services will be dropping changes it made to its H-1B guest worker visa program to resolve an information technology trade group's claims that the policies were unlawful and were unlawfully implemented.
March 10, 2020
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services improperly retooled the H-1B guest worker program, a D.C. federal judge said Tuesday in a ruling that impacts dozens of suits lodged by information technology firms that are challenging the new standards for securing specialized worker visas.
May 09, 2019
A D.C. federal judge suggested that the U.S. Citizen and Immigration Services only retooled the H-1B guest worker program so it could deny more visa applications, lodging a sharp rebuke of the new program standards in a hearing Thursday.
April 04, 2019
An information technology group has asked a D.C. federal judge to jettison several guest worker policies by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services that the industry claims in dozens of lawsuits are hurting its sector and reach beyond the agency's authority.
February 11, 2019
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services has broad authority to regulate the H-1B visa program, the federal government has told a D.C. federal court, rebutting an information technology trade group's claims that the agency wrongly imposed requirements that hurt the IT consulting industry.
October 12, 2018
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services is violating various federal regulations by requiring that employers seeking to use H-1B visas list upfront where and when employees will work during the time the worker will use the visa, an information technology trade organization said in District of Columbia federal court on Thursday.