H-1B visa: US reaches cap for 2023 | World News

The US has acquired adequate variety of purposes wanted to succeed in the Congressionally mandated 65,000 H1-B visa cap for the fiscal yr 2023, the nation’s federal company for immigration companies mentioned on Tuesday.

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

Know-how corporations rely upon it to rent 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.

“We've acquired a adequate variety of petitions wanted to succeed in 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 2023,” the US Citizenship and Immigration Companies (USCIS) mentioned in an announcement.

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 Chosen: Not chosen – not eligible to file an H-1B cap petition based mostly on this registration,” it mentioned.

In the meantime, the federal company will proceed to simply accept and course of petitions which are in any other case 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 2023 H-1B cap,” it mentioned.

Nonetheless, 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 employees, permit present H-1B employees to alter employers, and permit present H-1B employees to work concurrently in further H-1B positions, it added.