H-1B visa

Indian applicants dominated H-1B visa approvals, obtaining 72.6% of the total visas allocated in FY2022. (Image: Shutterstock)USCIS approved 3.2 lakh H-1B visas for Indians in the last fiscal year, while 55,038 Chinese applicants secured…

A US federal agency has announced plans to modernise the H-1B registration process after detecting abuse and fraud by some companies to artificially boost their chances of winning the coveted visa for their skilled foreign workers in the…

MUMBAI: The US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), has announced that it received 7,58,994 eligible registrations for the H-1B cap season for the fiscal ending September 30, 2024 – this is a rise of 60% over last year’s eligible…

Expressing concern over the large-scale layoffs in the tech industry, a group of lawmakers from Silicon Valley has written to the US immigration agency to ensure that the highly-skilled immigrants on H-1B visas, the most sought-after by…

Last Updated: April 09, 2023, 14:07 ISTAs per current exchange rates, Indian students will now have to pay around Rs 15,100 for a US visa. (Credits: Shutterstock) The US Department of State said it is increasing the visa prices of certain…

WASHINGTON: A group of influential lawmakers have introduced a bipartisan legislation in the US Senate to comprehensively overhaul the H-1B and L-1 visa programmes and usher in more transparency in the recruitment of foreign workers. The …

Last Updated: March 28, 2023, 04:05 ISTOn Monday, the US federal agency said it has received enough electronic registrations during the initial period to reach the fiscal year 2024 H-1B numerical allocations. (Image: Shutterstock)The US…

Big companies' talent loss is small companies' gain. Even as an estimated 200,000 tech workers have been laid off across big tech companies in the US, subcontracting firms, who provide workers on a project basis to large companies said that…

Thousands of Indian IT professionals in the US, who have lost their jobs due to the series of recent layoffs at companies like Google, Microsoft and Amazon, are now struggling to find new employment within the stipulated period under their…

The United States government has proposed a massive hike in immigration fees, including the much sought-after H-1B visas for high-skilled foreign workers which is very popular among Indian tech professionals amid long waiting time for visa…