H-1B visa: US reaches cap for 2023

The US has obtained a enough variety of functions wanted to succeed in the Congressionally mandated 65,000 H1-B visa cap for the fiscal 12 months 2023, the nation’s federal company for immigration companies stated on Tuesday.

The H-1B visa is a non-immigrant visa that enables US corporations to make use of international staff in specialty occupations that require theoretical or technical experience.

Technology corporations depend upon it to rent hundreds of workers annually from international locations like India and China.

The H-1B visa programme is essentially the most sought-after work visa amongst international professionals, together with Indians.

“We have received a sufficient number of petitions needed to reach the Congressionally mandated 65,000 H-1B visa regular cap and the 20,000 H-1B visa US advanced degree exemption, known as the master’s cap, for fiscal year 2023,” the US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) stated in a press release.

USCIS has accomplished sending non-selection notifications to registrants’ on-line accounts.

The standing for registrations correctly submitted for the FY 2023 H-1B numerical allocations, however that weren’t chosen, will now present, “Not Selected: Not selected, not eligible to file an H-1B cap petition based on this registration,” it stated.

Meanwhile, the federal company will proceed to just accept and course of petitions which are in any other case exempt from the cap, it stated.

“Petitions filed for current H-1B workers who have been counted previously against the cap, and who still retain their cap number, are exempt from the FY 2023 H-1B cap,” it stated.

However, USCIS will proceed to just accept and course of petitions filed to increase the period of time a present H-1B employee might stay within the US, change the phrases of employment for present H-1B staff, enable present H-1B staff to vary employers, and permit present H-1B staff to work concurrently in further H-1B positions, it added.

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