PF Cheng's Law Blog

Well, what do you know, more than 2 weeks after the start of the H-1B season, there are still spaces available!  This is both good news and bad news from an attorney's point of view.  The good news is that I can continue to file petitions on behalf of my clients; the bad news of course is that companies are just not hiring foreign workers, hence the relatively low number of petitions.

According to the data released by the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), as of April 9th, they have received only 42,000 H-1B petitions.  Considering that the annual cap is 65,000, that means you still have over 23,000 spaces available for those interested in applying.  In the past couple years, the quota was filled on the first day of application, so the fact that this year's quota lasted this long is a truly astounding turn of events.

Today is April 1st.  For most people April 1^st is just a day for mischief and harmless pranks; but for an immigration attorney, and the hundreds of thousands of foreigners interested in working full time in America, April 1^st is D-Day, the day when they let loose with their applications, hoping beyond hope that they will be one of the blessed few to be granted an H-1B temporary work permit.

To facilitate the employment of skilled foreign workers by US companies, every year the US government will issue 65,000 H-1B permits for use by foreign workers employed by US employers.  65,000 used to be more than enough, but that is no longer true, and for the last couple years the quota ran out as soon as it became available to the public (April 1^st), and this year it looks to be no exception even with the economic recession.

目前手上已經有賓州，紐澤西，與紐約的律師牌照。想說趁現在年輕，干脆把德拉瓦州也考起來。如此一來北從紐約，南到德拉瓦，四州都可以通吃！
雖然之前便聽說德拉瓦律師不好考，但我一向都不以為然。畢竟事在人為，再難考，隻要比別人准備的更勤，我相信一定可以考過。直到今天去了德拉瓦律師注冊網站才發現，我的想法實在是太天真了，德拉瓦州律師執照真的是不好到手！