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Staffing firms’ lawsuit against H-1B regulations moves forward (Bloomberg Law)

January 24, 2019

A coalition of IT staffing companies is moving forward with a lawsuit over a US Citizenship and Immigration Services policy that requires staffing companies seeking H-1B visas to provide workers’ full itineraries for the duration of their three-year visas, Bloomberg Law reported. That requirement effectively bars them from the program, the companies say, because their business model requires that they have the flexibility to move workers around as needed. On Jan. 18, a federal judge in New Jersey refused to throw out the case, a move that the Small and Medium Enterprise Consortium’s attorney is calling a win that could lead to the policy’s demise.