Commencing Today! US Acknowledges H-1B Visas
Posted on: 01/Apr/2014 5:55:29 PM
Starting today, convoluted arrangements has been made by the US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), for receipting much popular H-1B visas without any congestion.
These H-1B visas are highly desirable among IT professionals and the allocation of visas will be through programmed lots system.
Petitions will be accepted by USCIS till 7 April. In order to control the statistical count, random selection process will be sought for.
According to the Congressional Authorization cap which has been in practice for past several years, USCIS can allot utmost of 65,000 H-1B visas for the economic year 2015 starting October 1, 2014.
The foremost 20,000 H-1B appeals filed will be allotted for the folks with a US master’s degree. In order to ease the prioritized ingestion of cap-based requests seeking premium processing, ISIS will commence premium dealing for H-1B cap gears not beyond 28 April, said ISIS.
ISIS has conducted a computerized selection of lots for H-1B visas on April 7, 2013, and it was the first outset indiscriminate draw since, April 2008.
A minimum of 160,000 applications are anticipated for available 85,000 visas, described Marc Klein, a migration notary with Thompson & Knight to the CNBC news.
US still has a pause while considering other countries, when dealing a stress on refining American-born scholars in Computer Science, Maths and other subjects, she added.
