I used to be quoted immediately in a Occasions of India article on USCIS’s issuance of a game-changing new coverage memorandum yesterday through which it rescinds and replaces two earlier coverage memoranda (2010, 2018) concerning the adjudication of H-1B petitions for professionals assigned to third-party job websites.

Amongst its different directives, the memo instructs USCIS officers to cease requiring H-1B employers to supply job itineraries for H-1B candidates in addition to non-public contractual documentation between third-party consumer/vendor firms. The memo advises USCIS officers to chorus from issuing ridiculously quick approval durations in these instances (as little as 1-2 months). The memo additionally makes it simpler for an H-1B employer to reveal an eligible Employer-Worker relationship with its H-1B worker.

In abstract: although USCIS nonetheless maintains arrows in its quiver to focus on the H-1B program, the brand new steerage represents extraordinarily constructive information for H-1B stakeholders, notably these throughout the consulting business. The coverage steerage is efficient instantly, and applies to any pending or new requests for H-1B classification, together with motions on and appeals of revocations and denials of H-1B classification.