U.S. employers submitted 3.08 lakh applications to sponsor foreign workers for the H-1B visa during the registration cap period for the fiscal year ending on 30th September 2022 – a 12% increase compared to the previous year’s registrations. However, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services has selected only 87,500 applications, or […]
The Department of Homeland Security has removed a rule issued under the Trump administration last October. This interim final rule introduced restrictive eligibility parameters for the H-1B visa by narrowly defining specialty occupations and employer-employee relationships. In addition, it placed stricter limitations on H-1B workers being put at third-party worksites […]
On Friday, the Biden administration issued a notification for delaying a controversial rule proposed by the Trump administration, which called for increasing the mandatory minimum pay for H-1B visa holders in the USA. It is a positive move, as a higher minimum wage would have discouraged U.S. employers from hiring […]
Suppose the Democrats choose to introduce immigration reforms in a series of small steps instead of passing President Joe Biden’s immigration plan. In that case, the proposed increase in H-1B visa allocation for high-skilled workers may not happen this year. Biden has called for a dramatic rise in the number […]
The Trump administration has introduced a new rule for I.T. services and staffing companies based in the USA that sponsors foreign workers through the H-1B visa and recruits them to work at customer sites. On 14th January, the Department of Homeland Security signed a final rule redefining the critical term […]
According to an estimate by The Brookings Institution, the American economy following the Executive order to limit the number of visas based on employment, signed by American President Donald Trump on June 22, 2020, has incurred a loss of $100 billion to the U.S. economy. For this reason, many of […]
