The H1B Visa continues to be one of the most sought-after visas among international students and professionals. Despite the change in the H1B Lottery selection process during the H1B Fiscal Year(FY) 2025 season, USCIS still received a whopping 480K H1B registrations. While the number of people applying with multiple job offers to game the old …
Finally, after all the confusion with the changes to the US Dropbox Eligblity, which was directly updated in USVisaScheduling.com system and people sent back from their appointments, the US Department of State made an official announcement earlier this week on February 18th, 2025, confirming the changes and gave more guidance. In this article, we will …
In the last few days, there has been so much confusion regarding the US Visa Dropbox/ Interview waiver eligibility rules change across many US consulates and US embassies in a few countries like India, Australia, etc. Many applicants faced issues at the US Consulate/Dropbox locations during their visa appointments. Update: Starting from September 2nd, 2025, …
USCIS made an official announcement yesterday confirming the dates for the H1B Visa Fiscal Year(FY) 2026 season, how the lottery process would work, the new fee implementation, and other changes to the organizational accounts, and other details. This article will summarize the USCIS press release and relevant information for the H1B Fiscal Year(FY) 2026 season …
The day President Trump took office, he signed 26 Executive Orders(EO) and revoked 76 Biden executive actions. While there were quite a few executive orders focused on various aspects of immigration, one that impacts all of the non-immigrant visa holders, such as H1B, H4, L1, F1, and other visa holders, is the ending of birthright …
In October 2023, the US Department of Homeland Security(DHS) published a proposed rule in the federal register to modernize the H1B visa program with many changes. DHS published the final rule of the same proposed rule with changes in the federal register after reviewing comments submitted by the public on December 18th, 2024. This article …
Since the Biden administration took office, they have been doing some policy changes, some regulatory changes, and some changes to their internal processes to reduce the overall processing time and backlogs. As part of that, they first announced in March 2022 their plan to increase the automatic extension period for Employment Authorization Document(EAD) from 180 …
Many of you who submitted an H1B Registration during the H1B Visa Fiscal Year(FY) 2025 and were not picked in the first two rounds of the H1B lottery were hoping for a third-round lottery. Well, there is no hope now, as USCIS announced yesterday that they reached the H1B Cap for the FY 2025 season …
Many countries refund sales tax, Goods and Services Tax(GST), or Value Added Tax(VAT) to tourists for any of the goods they purchase in the visiting country. For instance, Singapore refunds GST on purchases done by tourists, and UAE offers VAT refunds for tourists. These refunds are aimed at boosting tourist spending in the country. Also, …
As most of you know, USCIS announced last week, July 30th, 2024, that they would need to conduct a second round H1B lottery for the Fiscal Year(FY) 2025 season as they did not receive a sufficient number of H1B petitions from the first round selected applications. Today, they announced that they have completed the second …