Two companies have sued the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) seeking to set aside the current H-1B visa lottery system.<\/p>\n
The H-1B visa classification permits a U.S. employer to offer a professional position to a degreed foreign national and employ that foreign national to work in such a position in the United States. Tenrec, Inc., a web development company, sought to hire a Ukrainian citizen, and Walker Macy LLC, a landscape architecture and urban design firm, sought to hire a Chinese citizen. Both companies are based in Portland, Oregon and each one filed its H-1B petition on or shortly after April 1, 2016, the earliest time period permitted by regulation to obtain a sought after H-1B visa number for an October 1, 2016 employment start date. Neither company’s H-1B petition was selected in the USCIS H-1B lottery. USCIS implemented an H-1B lottery by regulation to address how it will proceed when (more…)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Two companies have sued the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) seeking to set aside the current H-1B visa lottery system. The H-1B visa classification permits a U.S. employer to offer a professional position to a degreed foreign national and…<\/span><\/p>\n