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The United States Citizenship and Immigration Services starts accepting applications on the first business day of April for visas that count against the fiscal year starting in October. For instance, H-1B visa applications that count against the fiscal year 2013 cap were submitted starting Monday, April 2, 2012.
The rule will also streamline the application process for people who previously held H-1B visas and allow some people with controlling interest in petitioning organizations to themselves apply for ...
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services says the H-1B visa is geared toward professionals with a "theoretical and practical application of a body of ... The U.S. caps the number of H-1B visas at ...
Last year, IBM received more than 2,400 total approvals for new and continuing H-1B visas, the 15th most of any company, according to data from United States Citizenship and Immigration Services.
For example, there are about 23,000 visas available for married sons and daughters of US citizens; if the number of applicants in a year is over the available visa numbers, those applicants are placed in a queue and are given a priority date, which basically estimates when an applicant would get a visa based on the number of previous applicants ...
For all employer-sponsored nonimmigrant work or trainee visas (in particular, the H-1B visa and H-3 visa), Form I-129 (Petition for a Nonimmigrant Worker) needs to be filed with the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services. For the H-1B visa, a Labor Condition Application needs to be filed with and approved by the U.S. Department of ...
USCIS processes immigrant visa petitions, naturalization applications, asylum applications, applications for adjustment of status (green cards), and refugee applications. It also makes adjudicative decisions performed at the service centers, and manages all other immigration benefits functions (i.e., not immigration enforcement) performed by ...
The H-1B, or high-skill visa program, is overwhelmingly used by Indians. They make up about 75% of all petitioners, far outpacing even the next highest group, Chinese workers, who make up under 12%.