2010 H1B visa cap reached

Finally, 2010 H1B visa cap reached. It usually takes less than a month to reach cap but this time during recession year, cap last almost a year. You can see official USCIS press release here about H1B visa 2010 cap.

Get EB5 Green Card by investing in Dallas

Dallas Regional Center stir a buzz about getting green card by investing money in city of Dallas project. This is so called EB5 category immigration. If the investment generate at least 10 jobs for the city, in return, you and your family (for spouse and under age children only) get green cards. It might make sense for some wealthy foreigners. Their children get American education and it might save some money in the long run as being an international students always end up paying more. So if investors has four or five kids...good for them. Minimum of U.S. 500k might be cheaper than send all four kids as international students for four or six years including masters degree.

Please read the related article from DALLAS Morning News here.

Business Week new article about H1B visa

Business Week once in a while will have short article about H1B visa. please read here for the most recent one. Some people usually argue H1B visa are cheap labor in IT. That is not true. Not all H1B visa holders are in IT field and they should not be cheap. At least there need to meet Department of Labor salary minimum. They are set by DOL, so there should not be a cheap labor. Even someone think they are cheap, they should already meet the salary requirement.

Again, immigrants are one of the key factors America is not aging as most of the European countries.

H1b quota used 61100

There are not much left. H1b quota usually used up within a very short period of time if not a week or so. Now is mid December still have some quota left. Some lawyer estimate that the quota should use up within a week. If you are still in the process of filing the H1B visa, please do not wait. Talk to your boss and let them know what's happening.

Temporary Acceptance of H-1B Petitions Without Department of Labor Certified Labor Condition Applications (LCAs)

This news release about H1b will be better if just read the original post, please check here.