#FY2025

[govtshutdown]

I know I've been quiet despite there only being 12 days left until shutdown, but there hasn't been a lot of news until now.

Long Story short . . . they are going to pass a CR. No one knows how long of one, but it will be until at least early February so it'll be under President Trump. The Democrats are asking for three things for their vote on a CR:

$100 billion for disaster aid

renewal of the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act

renewal of the Older Americans Act

Now we wait.

[imagilityco]

USCIS Reaches H-2B Cap for First Half of FY 2025: What Employers Should Know

The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has officially reached the cap for the H-2B visa program for the first half of Fiscal Year 2025. This means that the maximum number of H-2B visas, which allow U.S. employers to hire foreign nationals for temporary non-agricultural work, has been met.

Understanding the H-2B Cap

Each fiscal year, Congress sets a cap of 66,000 H-2B visas, with 33,000 allocated for jobs starting in the first half of the year (October 1 to March 31), and 33,000 for the second half (April 1 to September 30). Once the cap is reached, USCIS stops accepting H-2B petitions for that period.

What Happens Now?

With the cap for the first half of FY 2025 met, employers who wish to hire H-2B workers will need to wait until the second half of the fiscal year to submit new petitions. There are exceptions, such as petitions for returning H-2B workers or those employed in certain territories like Guam and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, which do not count toward the cap.

What Employers Can Do Next

Prepare for the next filing period: Employers can begin preparing petitions for the second half of FY 2025, as demand for H-2B visas often exceeds supply.

Explore other visa options: If your labor needs are urgent, consider alternative visa programs like H-2A for agricultural workers or other temporary work visa categories.

Conclusion

Reaching the H-2B cap highlights the strong demand for temporary foreign workers across industries like landscaping, hospitality, and construction. Employers affected by the cap should stay updated on the latest USCIS announcements and prepare for future filing windows to meet their workforce needs.

[imagilityimmigrationsoftware]

Second H1B Lottery for FY 2025 Announced by USCIS

USCIS has announced a second lottery for the FY 2025 H-1B cap, bringing renewed hope to many applicants. If you missed the first round, here's another chance to secure your H-1B visa. Stay updated on selection notifications and filing details. Visit Imagility’s blog for more information.

[plethoraworldatlas]

Citing ample evidence of human rights abuses in U.S. immigration detention centers, 200 advocacy groups on Thursday demanded that the Biden administration reverse course on a planned expansion of detention facilities and said President Joe Biden's "further entrenching" of the government's reliance on detaining migrants marks "an utter betrayal" of his campaign promises.

The president's signing of a spending bill last month provided $3.4 billion for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), clearing the way for the agency to make space to jail 41,500 immigrants per day in facilities across the country.

After Biden campaigned on ending the use of for-profit detention centers, said the groups, he took office at a time when fewer than 15,000 people were being held in immigration detention facilities—which gave him "a remarkable opportunity to wind down a wasteful and abusive system."

But after the president's 2023 and 2024 budget requests signaled an intention of reducing detention funding—with ICE itself recommending that numerous facilities be closed due to "critical staffing shortages that have led to safety risks and unsanitary living conditions"—Biden last year requested supplemental detention funding as commentators and Republicans in Congress hammered the administration for allowing so-called "chaos" at the U.S.-Mexico border.

"Your FY2025 budget request sought funding for 34,000 beds instead of the 25,000 sought in the two previous cycles," wrote the groups, including Amnesty International USA, the National Immigrant Justice Center (NIJC), and the Texas Civil Rights Project. "The result is unsurprising: the FY2024 spending bill you signed provides ICE $3.4 billion to jail an average of 41,500 immigrants per day, historically high funding surpassing all four years of the Trump administration."

...

Biden signed the spending bill two weeks after Charles Daniel, a 61-year-old migrant from Trinidad and Tobago, died at a detention center operated by the private contractor GEO Group after being held in solitary confinement for four years. ICE has placed people in solitary confinement over 14,000 times in the last five years, according to PHR, for an average of 27 days each; U.N. experts say exceeding 15 days in solitary confinement constitutes torture.

[startswithabang]

Flagship NASA space telescope faces a penny-pinching death

In the Presidential FY2025 budget request, Biden called for decommissioning NASA's Chandra: our flagship X-ray telescope.

The reasons given? All untrue.

So here's what we can do.

[usafphantom2]

Classic Warthog! The USAF plans to divest 56 Warthogs in FY2025, with the ultimate aim of retiring the type by 2027 😞 #avgeeks #aviation #aviationdaily #aviationlovers #USAF

@RealAirPower1 via X

[datarep]

NVIDIA Income Statement Q1 FY2025

by u/giteam

[sapphire-weapon]

remember when capcom was like "yeah we expect to gross $1 billion in profit in FY2025"

i have no idea how the fuck you plan to do that with no RE release, capcom

or even with your only RE release being RE0R LMAO

[yetisidelblog]

$4.6 trillion. That’s how much money extending the 2017 tax law would add to the deficit, according to the Congressional Budget Office. How do Congressional Republicans plan on offsetting those costs? By taking away health care from millions by making draconian cuts to Medicaid.

Portions of the 2017 Trump tax legislation expire in December 2025 and Republicans have long wanted to extend their tax scam or even expand it. While they plan to give trillions of dollars in additional tax cuts to the rich and corporations, they also plan to cut funding for Medicaid, SNAP (food stamps), and other social safety net programs that millions of people rely on for support. Nearly 80 million people are enrolled in Medicaid or the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP)―and health care for millions is under attack.

We know this is the plan because Project 2025, the Republican Study Committee proposed budget for FY2025, and many House and Senate Republican leaders are calling for severe cuts to Medicaid.

According to the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, making the tax cuts permanent would cost $288.5 billion in the first year, with 63% of it going to the top 20% of earners and only 1% to the poorest 5th of Americans. We cannot allow Congress to pay for these tax breaks by taking health care away from millions.

Severely cutting Medicaid funding would jeopardize health and even cost lives. Congress must do everything in its power to stop this unscrupulous attack on Medicaid and other human needs programs.

Click “Start Writing” to send a direct message to Congress to reject cuts to Medicaid that will pay for more tax cuts for the rich and corporations.

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[govtshutdown]

Today on the Hill, the Appropriations committee will markup the Defense, Financial Services, and Legislative Branch bills. The bill currently on the House floor is this year's NDAA, the National Defense Authorization Act. Sorry for the confusion.

[dearayei]

Huddles & Plans x Fervor

All of our company's digital marketing team leads were summoned to our office last April 17-19, 2024, to synchronize our strategic marketing strategies for FY2025 with our CEO.

My coworker neighbor friend (CRM Kween 👑 - taga-pulis ng Sales Team namin 🚨) and I (Website Manager - newly promoted, boogosh! 🔥) went to our office at 4:30 a.m., uhm yeah, I woke up at exactly 2:25 a.m. for our first day 😂, and we arrived at the office at 5:50 a.m., if I'm not mistaken, and we went straight up to our office knowing it was still closed but we had a glimpse of our office being emptied out because our management is planning to move to a newer office, and this is what we saw:

I kind of missed this area since this is the digital marketing team hub - where all the loudest folks are.. yuuuuhz! 💅✨ #bardaguls

We are the team na laging napapagalitan kasi maiingay lolz 😂

Since the office is still closed, we decided to return back to the lobby and find a place where we can hangout while waiting for our office to open, and we stumbled upon into a newly opened "Be The Reason Cafe", as I am looking for a freshly brewed black coffee and I guess we came to the right place ☕💖

I tried their Honduras SHG coffee, which was highly suggested by their Japanese Coffee Specialist, Mr. Takayuki Sekiguchi - he is the one in the video who brewed my coffee wonderfully.

I rarely drink coffee due to my acidity, but I make an exception for brewed black coffee. I can tell that their coffees are legit fresh because of the aroma, texture, and taste; apparently, I didn't get an acid attack after drinking the coffee and it was very delicious and gave me the boost I needed that day.

It was a 3 days whole day meetings in terms of aligning the strategies for our Q1 to Q2 goals - I cannot put all the details here kasi madami kami napag-usapan and kind of NDA na, and I was able to set up a meeting and get approval for my initiative to revamp some of our main pages.

There were issues with the leads process and reports that have been rectified; perhaps, this year we will be able to implement enhancements and totally clean up all of our databases from spam and black-hat attacks.

Going back home I felt really tired and quite fatigued possibly because I am not used to going to the office anymore and my body & habits are built for work-at-home setup 😅 - my only wish is hindi ako magka-sakit since I normally get sick after a long trip or journey nowadays after I had my surgery back in January, I felt like my body is way different than before, it's more vulnerable and fragile.

Taylor Swift - The Tortured Poets Department

Madam Tay decided to release her new album this week to give us happiness, sadness, overthinking, clarification, and more.. (mix emotions) while we're working.

I am now in my room processing again all for her 31 songs this weekend - yes you heard it right! 🔥 I felt like she wrote some of these songs and didn't release it to her prior albums as it is suited well on this album more. If you know Taylor well, you will understand her lyrics more and where all of her fervor came from. So far, "The Prophecy", "Down Bad", "loml" and "I can do it with a broken heart" are my favorites 💘 in this album.

[imagilityco]

USCIS Reaches H-2B Cap for First Half of Fiscal Year 2025.

The H-2B visa cap for the first half of FY 2025 has been reached. Find out what this means for seasonal workers and employers moving forward.

[ivygorgon]

An open letter to the U.S. Congress

Pass President Biden’s budget!

890 so far! Help us get to 1,000 signers!

At a time when working families are having trouble affording everything from healthcare to education to housing to food, we need a budget that lowers costs for millions of households―paid for by making the wealthy and big corporations pay their fair share.

President Biden’s FY2025 budget would expand the Child Tax Credit, expand Affordable Care Act subsidies to help millions of people afford healthcare in states that haven’t expanded Medicaid, invest in free pre-K for 2 million kids, implement a national paid family and medical leave program, provide free community college, expand Social Security’s modest benefits, and more.

It would also reduce the national debt by nearly $3 trillion.

He does this by raising the corporate tax rate, implementing a 25% tax on the wealth gains of billionaires and ultra-millionaires, ending tax breaks for excessive CEO pay, closing loopholes that encourage corporations to ship jobs and profits offshore, and much more.

I urge Congress to pass President Biden’s FY2025 budget to invest in working people and our future. By wide margins, the American people think that the wealthy and large profitable corporations should pay more of their fair share in taxes. So endorsing the president’s budget is not only good policy, it’s good politics. Thanks!

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[imagilityimmigrationsoftware]

USCIS's second H1B lottery for FY 2025 brings another chance for applicants. Get all the details on this unexpected opportunity and what steps to take if you’re selected in this second round.