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H-1B Visa; Type: Non-immigrant work visa: Purpose: Employment of foreign workers in specialty occupations: Enacted: Immigration Act of 1990; roots in H-1 visa from Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952; modified by American Competitiveness in the Twenty-First Century Act of 2000 (AC21) and subsequent legislation
Labor Condition Application. The Labor Condition Application (LCA) is an application filed by prospective employers on behalf of workers applying for work authorization for the non-immigrant statuses H-1B, H-1B1 (a variant of H-1B for people from Singapore and Chile) and E-3 (a variant of H-1B for workers from Australia).
Nonimmigrants currently in the United States on a J-1 (exchange) visa who receive a waiver of the two-year residency requirement if requested by either a federal or state agency are now exempt from the H-1B cap. Qualifying employers of these beneficiaries may submit H-1B petitions, notwithstanding the fact that the H-1B cap was already met for ...
Throughout the discourse over H1-B visas, Musk had repeatedly maintained that the H1-B visa system needed to be “overhauled” and reformed” — something Ramaswamy had echoed as well.
In fact, he was once on an H-1B visa himself and said the tech sector needs foreign workers. ... Tesla, and hundreds of other companies that made America strong is because of H1B,” he wrote ...
The tech billionaire has been criticized by MAGA diehards including Laura Loomer and Ann Coulter — who say the H-1B visa program has been abused and needs to be sharply curtailed.
The H-1B1 visa (and associated H-1B1 status) is a variant of the H-1B visa in the United States for nationals of Singapore and Chile. The version for Singapore is called the H-1B1-Singapore and the version for Chile is called the H-1B1-Chile. These categories were introduced with the Singapore–United States Free Trade Agreement and Chile–United States Free Trade Agreement respectively ...
Last year, North Carolina State University received 148 new and continuing visa approvals, UNC-Chapel Hill had 94, and the Duke University Medical Center had 203. But the biggest hirers of H-1B ...