Fast processing of some H-1B visas |
The US has announced resuming faster processing of H-1B work visas, popular with Indian techies, for high skilled foreign professionals in categories exempt from Congress-mandated limit, which are mostly for higher education and scientific research institutions. The H1-B visa is a non-immigrant visa that allows US companies to employ foreign workers in speciality occupations that require theoretical or technical expertise in specialised fields. The technology companies depend on it to hire tens of thousands of employees each year. The H-1B visa has cap of 65,000 visas for each fiscal year. Additionally, there is an annual "master`s cap" of 20,000 petitions filed for beneficiaries with a US master`s degree or higher. Premium processing will resume for petitions that may be exempt from the cap if the H-1B petitioner is an institution of higher education, a non-profit relatedto or affiliated with an institution of higher education, or a non-profit research or governmental research organisation.
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