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Dear John,
Dear Colleague,
Employers and workers deserve a fair, streamlined visa process. That’s why the American Immigration Council and our partners are filing a lawsuit on behalf of employers whose H-1B petitions have been unlawfully rejected.
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) arbitrarily rejected H-1B petitions filed after October 1 simply because the employment start date—naturally—also fell after October 1.
Based on this timeline, USCIS created an absurd choice: foreign workers needed to start on October 1 (and not a day later), or the U.S. employer had to misrepresent the intended employment start-date by “back-dating” the petition.
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USCIS has not rejected these petitions across the board—some with an employment start date after October 1 have been accepted without issue. There is no law, regulation, or form instruction that requires an employer to specify only an October 1 start date in the H-1B petition.
We cannot allow USCIS to continue to reject H-1B petitions based on unpredictable and unreasonable criteria. That’s why we’ve teamed up with partners at Mintz Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky & Popeo, PC; Joseph & Hall, PC; Meyner and Landis LLP; Barnes & Thornburg LLP; and Driggs Immigration Law to take USCIS to court.
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Sincerely,
Leslie K. Dellon
Senior Attorney (Business Immigration)
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