Washington:
The US has received sufficient petitions required to attain the Congressionally-mandated 65,000 H-1B visa cap for the fiscal year 2021 and thriving candidates for the most sought-immediately after work visa amongst foreign specialists, like Indians, would be decided by a computerised draw of lots.
The H-1B visa is a non-immigrant visa that permits the US firms to employ foreign workers in speciality occupations that need theoretical or technical knowledge. The technologies firms rely on it to employ tens of thousands of workers every year from nations like India and China.
US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has stated it has received a enough quantity of petitions required to attain the congressionally mandated 65,000 H-1B visa normal cap and the 20,000 H-1B visa US sophisticated degree exemption, recognized as the master’s cap, for fiscal year (FY) 2021.
Successful applicants would be decided by a computerised draw of lots.
We have completed sending non-choice notifications to registrants’ on the web accounts, a media release stated.
We will continue to accept and approach petitions that are otherwise exempt from the cap, it stated.
Petitions filed for existing H-1B workers who have been counted previously against the cap, and who nevertheless retain their cap quantity, are exempt from the FY 2021 H-1B cap.
The USCIS will continue to accept and approach petitions filed to extend the quantity of time a existing H-1B worker may perhaps stay in the US and transform the terms of employment for existing H-1B workers.
The Biden administration this month announced that it was delaying the H-1B policy of the earlier Trump administration on the allocation of the well known foreign work visas by continuing with the lottery method till December 31, 2021, to give the immigration agency more time to create, test and implement the modifications to the registration method.
On January 7, the US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced to do away with the standard lottery method in deciding the thriving applicants for the H-1B visas.
The Trump-era rule was scheduled to go into impact on March 9.
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