H-1B visas are the most sought after visa among the Indian IT professionals.
The US will run a lottery for the second time to give H-1B visas to people with special qualifications. Under this visa, skilled people get jobs in American companies.
People with special qualifications have chances of getting H-1B visas, as the US has decided to conduct a lottery for the second time.
The H-1B visas are non-immigrant visa that allows US companies to employ foreign workers. This visa category is the most sought after visa among Indian IT professionals.
According to US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), the first lottery conducted earlier this year allotted a smaller number of visas than what was set by the US Congress
According to US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), the first lottery conducted earlier this year allotted a smaller number of visas than what was set by the US Congress.
The decision to conduct the second lottery is to allot the number of visas set by the US Congress.
A USCIS statement clearing doubts about registration dates and deadlines said, “We recently decided that we needed to select additional registrations to reach the fiscal year 2022 numerical allocation.”
“As per regulation, we use historical data related to approvals, denials, revocations, and other relevant factors to calculate the number of registrations needed to meet the H-1B cap for a given fiscal year. Only those petitioners with selected registrations for FY 2022 are eligible to file H-1B cap-subject petitions. The initial filing period for those with selected registrations for FY 2022 was from April 1, 2021, through June 30, 2021. We recently determined that we needed to select additional registrations to reach the FY 2022 numerical allocations,” the statement said.