As many of you have been waiting for the official USCIS update on H1B Visa 2023 season, today USCIS announced that they have completed the first round H1B lottery and notified all the selected applicants. Also, they have given guidance on how to file H1B petitions and how they will handle them for receipts notices, …
As many of you know the H1B Visa 2023 season started earlier this month with the H1B Registration Process starting on March 1st, 2022 until March 18th, 2022. This year, USCIS took longer than the previous years to give out results. Last year, we got results, within a couple of days. This year, results came …
Every year there are 85,000 new H1B Visas that are issued by USCIS. If we look at H1B cap reach dates from FY 2004 until 2022, we see that there was an H1B Lottery for the last consecutive 9 years, which indicates crazy demand for H1B Visa. Starting from H1B FY 2021 season, USCIS introduced H1B …
In the last consecutive 9 years, starting from FY 2014 season, the demand for H1B visas always exceeded the available 85,000 slots of H1B cap per year, leading to H1B Lottery during all these years. All the hard-working professionals test their luck with random selection ( aka H1B Lottery) to work in the US after …
Every country in the world, including India, are trying to adjust their policies to live in the new norm COVID era with vaccination. To spur economic activity and ease travel restrictions, the Indian Government announced yesterday, Feb 10th, 2022 that they are changing the policies for RT-PCR tests for anyone entering the country from Feb …
Indian passports are categorized as ECR or Non-ECR based on the passport holders’ status that depends on various factors like their education, age, marital status, etc. You need to provide supporting documents at the Passport Seva Kendra as proof to be able to get a Non-ECR Passport. In this article, we will review the complete …
USCIS made a press release today stating that they would accept H1B Registrations for the next fiscal year ( FY 2023) starting from March 1st. In this article, we will outline the summary of the details and what changed, what is the same as last year, what are the timelines, and what to expect. Before …
The US Department of State made a significant announcement in late December 2021 that eased many of the Visa stamping issues for many non-immigrant visa holders. They announced that they are expanding interview waivers for many visa types if applicants meet certain conditions starting from January 1st, 2022. Also, they extended the 48 months US …
Most of the lucky ones were selected in the first and second rounds of the H1B visa lottery. As per lottery selection numbers, many doubted ( including us), if there would ever be a third round. There was never a third-round lottery conducted in the past. First time in H1B visa lottery selection history we …
As most of you know, at the moment, there is no automatic extension for H4 EAD or L2 EAD. In the last few years, thousands of H4 EAD and L2 EAD holders have lost jobs as they did not get their EAD application approved on time, despite having valid I-94 and their spouse’s extension at …