Articles regarding US Immigration and Visas like H1B Visa, H4 Visa, F1 Visa, L1, L2 Visa, Green Card, and other aspects
Last year in November 2021, there was a Facebook Live Q &A session on US Visa Appointments situation in India organized by US Embassy. In that session, Minister Counselor for Consular Affairs for India, Mr. Don Heflin took the time to answer questions about US Visa appointments, the overall Consulates operations situation in India. On …
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 …
USTravelDocs India announced a significant update that allows US Visa Interview Waiver, also called Dropbox, applicants to submit documents at any location starting from April 4th, 2022. In this article, we will review complete details about the announcement, like how it would work, changes to the Dropbox confirmation message, changes in appointment letters, responses from …
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 2026, we notice that an H1B Lottery was conducted every year for the last 13 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 …
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 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 Visa dropbox …
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 …