The United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) have announced that, due to the record-setting amount of H1-B visa applications this year (07), the USCIS Service Centers are dealing with a huge backlog of receipting/data entry.

The expected dates for application processing are as follows:

California Service Center - June 15, 2007

Nebraska Service Center - May 10, 2007

Texas Service Center - May 10, 2007

Vermont Service Center - June 2, 2007

These dates do not apply to Premium Processing or I-129 H-1B (cap or non-cap) cases.

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