US company permits some H-1B visa seekers to re-submit their purposes

A federal US physique has introduced that it’ll enable some overseas visitor staff to re-submit their purposes for the H-1B visa, essentially the most sought-after non-immigrant visa amongst Indian IT professionals.

The H-1B visa permits US corporations to make use of overseas staff in speciality occupations that require theoretical or technical experience. Technology corporations rely on it to rent tens of hundreds of workers every year from nations like India and China.According to the US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), such re-submission of purposes is for these whose purposes have been rejected or administratively closed solely as a result of the requested begin date was after October 1, 2020.ALSO READ: Good information for Indians as Joe Biden lets Trump period H-1B visa ban die out”If your FY 2021 petition was rejected or administratively closed solely because your petition was based on a registration submitted during the initial registration period, but you requested a start date after Oct. 1, 2020, you may re-submit that previously filed petition, with all applicable fees,” USCIS mentioned on Wednesday.”Such petitions must be re-submitted before October 1, 2021. If properly resubmitted, we will consider the petition to have been filed on the original receipt date,” USCIS mentioned.In 2020, USCIS applied an digital registration course of for the H-1B cap.ALSO READ: Amid scarcity of expert staff, US Chambers of Commerce lobbies to double H-1B visa quotaProspective petitioners searching for to file H-1B cap-subject petitions, together with for beneficiaries eligible for the superior diploma exemption, should first electronically register and pay the USD 10 H-1B registration charge for every beneficiary.”The electronic registration process has streamlined processing by reducing paperwork and data exchange and provided overall cost savings to employers seeking to file H-1B cap-subject petitions,” it mentioned.According to USCIS, for fiscal 2021, the variety of petitions filed in the course of the preliminary submitting interval was under the quantity projected as wanted to achieve the numerical allocations.This discrepancy was doubtless associated to a number of components, together with the financial, political, and public well being uncertainty created by the Covid-19 pandemic, in addition to the truth that FY 2021 was the primary 12 months that we applied the digital registration course of.ALSO READ: Holiday locations for Indians in Covid occasions”Therefore, in August 2020, we selected additional registrations that were held in reserve. The filing period for registrations selected in August ended on November 16, 2020,” it mentioned.”Some petitioners indicated a start date after October 1, 2020. We rejected or administratively closed those petitions because they were based on registrations submitted during the initial registration period but indicated a start date after October 1, 2020. Upon reconsideration, we no longer believe that the regulations required us to reject or administratively close those petitions,” USCIS mentioned.