US reaches H-1B visa cap for 2021

The US has acquired sufficient petitions wanted to achieve the Congressionally-mandated 65,000 H-1B visa cap for the fiscal yr 2021 and profitable candidates for essentially the most sought-after work visa amongst overseas professionals, together with Indians, can be determined by a computerised draw of tons.
The H-1B visa is a non-immigrant visa that enables the US firms to make use of overseas employees in speciality occupations that require theoretical or technical experience. The know-how firms rely on it to rent tens of hundreds of staff every year from nations like India and China.
US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has mentioned 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, referred to as the grasp’s cap, for fiscal yr (FY) 2021.
Successful candidates can be determined by a computerised draw of tons.
“We have completed sending non-selection notifications to registrants’ online accounts,” a media launch mentioned.
“We will continue to accept and process petitions that are otherwise exempt from the cap,” it mentioned.
Petitions filed for present H-1B employees who’ve been counted beforehand in opposition to the cap, and who nonetheless retain their cap quantity, are exempt from the FY 2021 H-1B cap.
The 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 and alter the phrases of employment for present H-1B employees.
The Biden administration this month introduced that it was delaying the H-1B coverage of the earlier Trump administration on the allocation of the favored overseas work visas by persevering with with the lottery system till December 31, 2021, to present the immigration company extra time to develop, take a look at and implement the modifications to the registration system.
On January 7, the US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) introduced to get rid of the standard lottery system in deciding the profitable candidates for the H-1B visas.

The Trump-era rule was scheduled to enter impact on March 9.