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Donald Trump's administration may allow spouses of H-1B visa holders to legally work in the country, as according to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) their employment in the US does not mean they are taking jobs from US nationals. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has appealed to a US district court not to put an end to the earlier Obama's law, the  H-4 employment authorisation document (EAD), which allowed spouses of H-1B visa holders to [...]

The Federal Government of the United States has given a grace period of 60 days to H-1B visa and Green Card applicants, who received notices for submission of their documents amid Coronavirus outbreak (COVID-19). The US Citizenship and Immigration Services statement stressed that the 60-day grace period for responding to its requests will include the following: requests for evidence; continuations to request evidence (N-14); notices of intent to deny, to revoke, to rescind and to terminate regional [...]

The United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has denied allegations that up to 900 registrations for new H-1B petitions have been wrongly denied as duplicates by the agency due to a malfunction in the new electronic registration system. While attorneys believe that there are problems with the new system of the USCIS, the agency said that the scope of the denials was much higher than first thought, VisaGuide.World reports. The American Immigration Lawyers Association started noticing [...]

More than 67 per cent of 275,000 registrations for H-1B visas in the fiscal year 2021 were filed by Indian citizens, the US Citizenship and  Immigration Services announced. From  250,00 applications, 85,000 applications are selected by the lottery, VisaGuide.World reports. India and China have been the largest beneficiaries of the H-1B visa, in the previous years as well. Even though Indian citizens make the largest number of beneficiaries of the temporary H-1B visa, last year they had [...]

More than 100 registrations for new H-1B petitions have been mistakenly denied by the US Citizenship and Immigration Services, due to a malfunction in the new electronic registration system. The new system enables an employer to register a company and submit the foreign citizen’s name they want to petition for the H-1B temporary visa, VisaGuide.World reports. Nearly 275,000 registration has been made by the employers, for the initial period for H-1B visa Cap, surpassing the annual cap [...]

A nonprofit organization, known as US Tech Workers, has urged America’s government to suspend for this year the H-1B and H-2B visa programs, to protect their interest amid coronavirus pandemic. Through a letter addressed to the US President, Donald Trump, the organization asked the suspension of these two programs amid the economic shutdown, due to COVID-19. “We have written a letter asking that the H-1B & H-2B visa program be suspended for this year due to the [...]

The United States Citizenship and Immigration agency announced that the limit for the preliminary applications for H-1B visas has been reached, for the annual cap of 85,000 visas, as this is the first time USCIS imposed a new electronic registration system. Through the new system of USCIS, applications streamline the expensive and cumbersome applications process for H-1B temporary visas, VisaGuide.World reports. H-1B visa, enables all international citizens, specialized in specific skills such as IT professionals, architects, professors, [...]

The United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is trying to fasten the process of granting H-1B visas to foreign workers in the US, amid a health crisis due to the COVID-19. The acceleration of visa application processing was announced on March 16 when DHS’s immigration services agency announced it would limit the use of “premium processing” to “help us to reduce overall H-1B processing times.” The temporary suspension of premium processing has been applied in a [...]