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Despite the recent continuous tech layoffs, America is still the destination for high-skilled workers to pursue their professional careers. Getting an H1B Visa to work in the US is the biggest challenge and uncertainty many international students and professionals face today. The demand for H1B visas continues to soar every year, with over 484,000 H1B …
USCIS released a press note today indicating they will accept registrations for H1B cap-subject petitions for H1B Visa 2024 season starting from March 1st. In this article, we will summarize the key points from the press release, what to expect and how the overall process would work for H1B Fiscal Year 2024 season. If you …
In the last few weeks, there were some massive layoffs in the tech industry like Twitter(3000 jobs) , Salesforce(1000), Stripe (1000+), etc. The macroeconomic factors are not favorable and companies are cutting back on costs. Many people save money for black swan events like these. But, sadly, money does not help non-immigrant visa holders on …
As most of you know H1B Visa is one of the most sought temporary work visas and there was a tremendous amount of demand for fiscal year(FY) 2023 with 484K H1B Registrations submitted and even more for FY 2024 a crazy 781K registrations. As with everything else in life, not everyone plays a fair game …
As most of you know, USCIS received 484K H1B registrations for H1B Fiscal Year(FY) 2023 season and they selected about 127,600 in the first round. Since then, many have been speculating that there is likely going to be a second-round lottery for FY 2023 season similar to the previous H1B FY 2022 season. Today, all …
USCIS announced official H1B 2023 first-round lottery results on March 29th, 2022 indicating that they have completed the H1B lottery first round and notified all selected applicants. What they did not announce was the total number of filings and other metrics. They quietly updated their H1B Registration page in late April 2022 with the H1B …
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, 85,000 new H1B Visas are issued by USCIS to meet the annual H1B cap. If we look at the H1B cap reach dates from Fiscal Year(FY) 2004 until FY 2025, we notice that an H1B Lottery was conducted every year for the last 12 consecutive years. Having a lottery every year for H1B registrations …
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 …