Written by Foreign nationals living in the United States are subject to federal income tax laws. Permanent residents, even those residing outside the U.S., are also responsible for filing federal income tax returns each year. The Internal Revenue Service publishes several helpful guides each year for employers and foreign nationals: U.S. Tax Guide for Aliens (Publication 519) [...]
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H-1B Filing Season
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) today announced it continues to accept H-1B nonimmigrant petitions that are subject to the fiscal year (FY) 2012 cap. The agency began accepting these petitions on April 1, 2011. USCIS is monitoring the number of petitions received that count toward the congressionally mandated annual H-1B cap of 65,000 and [...]
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Through the H-1B program, U.S. employers are able to hire, on a temporary basis, highly educated foreign professionals for “specialty occupations”—jobs that require at least a bachelor’s degree or the equivalent in the field of specialty. Examples include doctors, engineers, teachers and researchers in a wide variety of fields, accountants, medical personnel, and computer scientists. [...]
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