MUMBAI: The US Citizenship and Immigration Companies (USCIS) acquired 483,927 H-1B cap registrations this fiscal (interval ending September 30, 2023), an approximate 57% improve over the fiscal 2022 submitting season.
Of those registrations, USCIS has chosen 127,600 registrations (26% of the overall registrations acquired) to fulfill the H-1B quota – varied sides such because the sponsoring employer not going via with the precise submitting course of for the visa, the potential of denial of the visas are factored in.
Immigration legislation agency – Berry Appleman & Leiden factors out that USCIS chosen considerably extra registrations within the preliminary lottery than final yr when it chosen 87,500 registrations and subsequently performed two extra lotteries.
The annual quota for H-1B cap visas is 85,000 (which incorporates 20,000 visas which can be allotted below the Masters’ cap for these beneficiaries having superior levels from US universities).
For the fiscal 2023 submitting season, registrations have been submitted by greater than 48,000 potential petitioners and roughly 31% of the eligible registrations requested have been for the grasp’s cap.
Sponsoring employers whose registrations have been accepted need to file the visa purposes by June 30 – the shut of the submitting season. This might be adopted by processing of the purposes together with calling for extra info – if want be. The earliest the chosen beneficiaries (H-1B cap employees) can start work below this visa within the US might be October 1.
If the variety of visa purposes acquired by June 30 falls wanting the annual quota for fiscal 2023, a second lottery might be performed.
The H-1B registration course of was launched for the primary time in 2020. Beneath this course of, sponsoring employers who search to make use of H-1B cap employees (known as beneficiaries) first full an internet registration course of that requires solely primary details about the possible employee. A lottery (aka random choice course of is then carried out) and H-1B cap visa purposes need to be filed solely in respect of the chosen beneficiaries.
For fiscal 2022, USCIS had acquired 308,613 H-1B cap registrations and initially chosen solely 87,500 registrations – which have been projected as wanted to succeed in the annual quota. Nevertheless, owing to low submitting volumes, a second lottery was held in July 2021 – based mostly on the unique registrations and an extra 27,717 registrations have been chosen. This was adopted by a 3rd lottery in November 2021, with a collection of an extra 16,752 registrations.
Of those registrations, USCIS has chosen 127,600 registrations (26% of the overall registrations acquired) to fulfill the H-1B quota – varied sides such because the sponsoring employer not going via with the precise submitting course of for the visa, the potential of denial of the visas are factored in.
Immigration legislation agency – Berry Appleman & Leiden factors out that USCIS chosen considerably extra registrations within the preliminary lottery than final yr when it chosen 87,500 registrations and subsequently performed two extra lotteries.
The annual quota for H-1B cap visas is 85,000 (which incorporates 20,000 visas which can be allotted below the Masters’ cap for these beneficiaries having superior levels from US universities).
For the fiscal 2023 submitting season, registrations have been submitted by greater than 48,000 potential petitioners and roughly 31% of the eligible registrations requested have been for the grasp’s cap.
Sponsoring employers whose registrations have been accepted need to file the visa purposes by June 30 – the shut of the submitting season. This might be adopted by processing of the purposes together with calling for extra info – if want be. The earliest the chosen beneficiaries (H-1B cap employees) can start work below this visa within the US might be October 1.
If the variety of visa purposes acquired by June 30 falls wanting the annual quota for fiscal 2023, a second lottery might be performed.
The H-1B registration course of was launched for the primary time in 2020. Beneath this course of, sponsoring employers who search to make use of H-1B cap employees (known as beneficiaries) first full an internet registration course of that requires solely primary details about the possible employee. A lottery (aka random choice course of is then carried out) and H-1B cap visa purposes need to be filed solely in respect of the chosen beneficiaries.
For fiscal 2022, USCIS had acquired 308,613 H-1B cap registrations and initially chosen solely 87,500 registrations – which have been projected as wanted to succeed in the annual quota. Nevertheless, owing to low submitting volumes, a second lottery was held in July 2021 – based mostly on the unique registrations and an extra 27,717 registrations have been chosen. This was adopted by a 3rd lottery in November 2021, with a collection of an extra 16,752 registrations.
