USCIS PLANS TO CLARIFY THAT TEACHING HOSPITALS REMAIN EXEMPT FROM H-1B CAP

A furor that has developed in recent months due to USCIS backtracking on years of recognizing the affiliation relationships between non-profit teaching hospitals and America’s medical schools is about to be resolved. Siskind Susser has learned that next week USCIS will be issuing a clarification memorandum that will instruct examiners that teaching hospitals are to continue to be exempt from H-1B quotas as they have in the past.