It has been introduced by the US Citizenship and Immigration Providers or USCIS that they’ve obtained sufficient petitions to fulfill the cap for H-1B visas.
So, can extra folks apply or will they be rejected?
A congressional cap of 65,000 H-1B visas for normal candidates and an extra 20,000 visas for US superior diploma holders have been mandated by the US authorities.
The company has knowledgeable that it’s going to ship out non-selection notices to registered candidates by means of their on-line accounts. The standing later will learn, “Not Chosen: Not chosen – not eligible to file an H-1B cap petition based mostly on this registration” as soon as the notifications are full.
The H-1B cap lottery comes into the image after the purposes exceed the annual cap set by the US authorities. After that, a lottery system is used to course of the petitions.
The deadline for submitting H-1B cap petitions was June 30 2024 however because the date fell on a Sunday, correctly registered petitions obtained on July 1, 2024 would even be thought-about on time.
Nevertheless, USCIS will proceed to just accept and course of petitions which were exempted from the cap.
“We are going to proceed to just accept and course of petitions filed to increase the period of time a present H-1B employee could stay in the USA; change the phrases of employment for present H-1B employees; enable present H-1B employees to alter employers; and permit present H-1B employees to work concurrently in further H-1B positions,” the USCIS stated.
The visa lottery is a posh course of and must be adopted by means of with element. It’s advisable to maintain monitor of the notifications despatched by USCIS and never miss essential deadlines or info.
Often nearly all of H-1B visa holders are Indians (72.3% of the whole 386,000 H-1B visas issued), nonetheless USCIS information reveals a decline in sponsorships throughout main companies reminiscent of Google, Amazon, Infosys and IBM.
