Immigration Lawyer

H-1B Cap Exemptions and Alternatives to the Lottery

Most people who need a new H-1B have to go through a lottery. A much smaller group does not. This page explains which employers and which jobs sit outside the annual H-1B numerical limit, which workers have already been counted and so are not counted again, and which visa categories let nationals of a few countries avoid the lottery altogether.

By Editorial Team , 6 December 2006

If you wonder why you should hire an Immigration Attorney, just ask Senator Curt Thompson's Wife

According to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution on 12/6/06, Georgia State Senator Curt Thompson's wife will not be deported out of the U.S. after all. A deportation order was entered against the Colombian national, however, apparently as a result of shoddy work by a "notario". The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported that the ordeal began as follows:

Federal immigration agents knocked on the door of state Sen. Curt Thompson's home in Tucker on Nov. 28 and informed him his new bride was to be deported.