File for New H-1B Immigration Status on April 1st, 2007
Baker Donelson
March 14, 2007
Employers should prepare now to file H-1B petitions for their professional-level prospective foreign employees on April 1, 2007. That is the first allowable filing date for work to begin on October 1, which is the first day of the 2008 government fiscal year. Given the serious backlog that has been created because of the high demand for the limited number of visas in this classification, there is a real possibility that the entire allocation of 65,000 visas (the Cap) could be reached on or within several days of the April 1 initial filing date.
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