United States reaches 65,000 H-1B visa cap for 2022: USCIS

The US has acquired sufficient petitions wanted to achieve the congressionally mandated 65,000 H-1B visa cap for the fiscal yr 2022, a federal company has introduced.

The H-1B visa is a non-immigrant visa that permits US firms to make use of overseas staff in speciality occupations that require theoretical or technical experience. Technology firms depend upon it to rent tens of 1000’s of staff annually from nations like India and China.

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

As mandated by the US Congress, the US can subject a most of 65,000 H-1B visa common cap and one other 20,000 H-1B visa US superior diploma exemption classes yearly.

US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) which screens all such purposes yearly on Monday introduced that it has acquired a ample variety of petitions wanted to achieve the congressionally mandated 65,000 H-1B visa common cap and the 20,000 H-1B visa US superior diploma exemption, often called the grasp’s cap, for fiscal yr (FY) 2022.

“We have completed sending non-selection notifications to registrants’ online accounts. The status for registrations properly submitted for the FY 2022 H-1B numerical allocations, but that were not selected, will now show: Not Selected: Not selected, not eligible to file an H-1B cap petition based on this registration,” it mentioned.

The USCIS will proceed to simply accept and course of petitions which are in any other case exempt from the cap, it mentioned.

“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 2022 H-1B cap,” mentioned the federal company.

Meanwhile, the USCIS will proceed to simply accept and course of petitions filed to increase the period of time a present H-1B employee could 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.

While the Congressional cap is 65,000; not all H-1B nonimmigrant visas (or standing grants) are topic to this annual cap. Notably, as much as 6,800 visas are put aside from the 65,000 every fiscal yr for the H-1B1 programme underneath the phrases of the laws implementing the US-Chile and U.S.-Singapore free commerce agreements.

Unused visas on this group change into obtainable for H-1B use for the subsequent fiscal yr’s common H-1B cap.