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Cap-exempt organizations can petition for H-1Bs year-round, and they are not subject to a statutory limit. Under the new rule, nonprofit and governmental research organizations will be defined as ...
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
The latest list of the companies identified as H-1B-dependent_employers in their LCA filings can be obtained from the DoL "Disclosure data". In the data file, the column H-1B_DEPENDENT will have a Y or N value (Y = Employer is H-1B Dependent; N = Employer is not H-1B Dependent) indicating the status the company used in the filing.
Prior to this Act, there were 195,000 slots available under the annual H-1B cap. Nonprofit research institutions were exempt from the cap, and people who had been counted towards the cap already (such as if they were transferring jobs or extending a 3-year H-1B by another 3 years) could apply without being counted against the cap as long as they weren't going over their 6-year limit.
As the annual H-1B lottery opens Wednesday, the program’s annual cap of 85,000 visas is once again under scrutiny, with some experts and business leaders calling it a threat to U.S. innovation.
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 ...
North Carolina stopped covering weight loss drugs such as Ozempic for state employees without diabetes. But it extended coverage for Medicaid recipients.
The American Competitiveness and Workforce Improvement Act (ACWIA) was an act passed by the government of the United States on October 21, 1998 (while Bill Clinton was President of the United States), pertaining to high-skilled immigration to the United States, particularly immigration through the H-1B visa, and helping improving the capabilities of the domestic workforce in the United States ...