The United States, which received nearly 124,000 applications for the H-1B visas, has used lottery to determine who all would be given the most sought after work visas among IT professionals. The United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) on Tuesday said that the lottery was done on April 7. The federal agency had started [...] Read more »
H-1B visa cap reached in first week; first lottery since 2008
A surge in the number of petitions for H-1B visas this year has led to the annual cap being exceeded in just five days, triggering a lottery, according to the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services or USCIS. The agency announced it had received more than 65,000 petitions for the financial year starting October 1 [...] Read more »
US announces cap on 65,000 H-1B work visas
WASHINGTON: The United States Citizenship and Immigration Services has announced that it has reached the cap on Congressionally mandated 65,000 H-1B work visas, the most sought after by Indian professionals. This is for the first time in several years, in particular during the recent economic crisis, that the cap on H-1B visas, for technology professionals, [...] Read more »
Organisations warn US of employers substituting L-1 visa for H-1B
This week the US began accepting applications for the popular H-1B visa program. While the H-1B visa has been a popular visa among IT workers for a long time, critics are saying that the L-1 visa is now being used improperly in place of the H-1B visa. The L-1 visa is used for intra-company transfers [...] Read more »
US keeps H-1B Visa cap at 65k; no fee hike
The United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) on Wednesday announced that the global cap for the H-1B visa to the US will remain unchanged at 65,000 for the financial year 2012-13 and the filing date for fresh visa will start on April 2, 2012. The fees for H-1B visas for next year also remain [...] Read more »
H-1B visa applications to be accepted from 2nd April: US
WASHINGTON: Applications for the most sought after H-1B work visa – used extensively by Indian IT professionals – for the fiscal beginning October 1, would be accepted beginning April 2, a federal immigration agency announced on Tuesday. The congressionally mandated numerical limitation on H-1B petitions for the fiscal year 2012-13 is 65,000, as has been [...] Read more »
US immigration to begin accepting H-1B applications starting 2 April 2012
US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) will begin accepting fiscal year 2013 H-1B visa applications on Monday 2 April 2012 for employment with a start date of 1 October 2012 or later. Current immigration law allows for a total of 85,000 new H-1B visas to be made available each government fiscal year. This number includes 65,000 [...] Read more »
US downplays visa denial issue
Francisco J Sanchez, US Under Secretary of Commerce for International Trade, on Thursday downplayed the issue of H-1B visa denial to Indian companies. “The US government had no policy to single out any country, including India, in this regard. The US is quite keen to promote more trade and investment opportunities with India,” Sanchez told [...] Read more »
US lawmakers question sharp rise in denial of H1B, L1 visas
WASHINGTON: Voicing concern over increasing rates of denial of H-1B and L1 work visas, that are popular among Indian professionals, top US lawmakers and corporate bigwigs have questioned the Obama administration over the issue, warning this would hurt American business interests. Officials at a Congressional hearing cited last year’s figure of 26 per cent denial [...] Read more »
Entrepreneurial immigrants could mean creation of more jobs for U.S. citizens
With record-high unemployment and our representatives in Washington futilely grasping for ways to create jobs, you would think there would be shouting from the rooftops and cable TV victory laps when a true job-creating measure were enacted. Curiously, an important policy change that will lead directly to more American jobs seems to have been enacted [...] Read more »
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