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U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services has reinstated its pre-2017 policy of presuming the position of computer programmer to be a specialty occupation.
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Additional Information: In rescinding the 2017 memo, USCIS cited a Dec. 16, 2020, Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruling in which the court overturned USCIS’s denial of an H-1B visa petition, noting that USCIS’s denial followed the logic of the 2017 memo. USCIS said Wednesday it is rescinding the 2017 memo in “order to ensure consistent adjudications across the H-1B program.”
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